Sorry to beat the dead horse, but I've just found perhaps the only written proof that OpenSolaris is supportable. For those of you who deny that this is an issue, its existence as a supported OS has been recently erased from every other place I've seen on the Oracle sites. Everyone please grab a copy of this before they silently delete it and claim that it never existed. I'm buying a contract right now. I may just take back every mean thing I ever said about Oracle.
http://www.sun.com/servicelist/ss/lgscaledcsupprt-us-eng-20091001.pdf On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@sun.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 20:52 -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: >> "There may be some things we choose not to open source going forward, >> similar to how MySQL manages certain value-add[s] at the top of the >> stack," Roberts said. "It's important to understand the plan now is to >> deliver value again out of our IP investment, while at the same time >> measuring that with continuing to deliver OpenSolaris in the open." >> >> "This will be a balancing act, one that we'll get right >> sometimes, but may not always." >> >> ------------- >> From the feedback data I've seen customers dislike this type >> of licensing model most. Dan may or may not be reading this, >> but I'd strongly discourage this approach. Without knowing >> more I don't know what alternative I could recommend though.. >> (Too bad I missed that irc meeting..) >> >> ./C >> >> >> >> I may be wrong, but isn't this already what they do? I mean, there is >> a bunch of proprietary stuff in solaris that didn't make it into >> opensolaris. I thought this was how they did things anyways, or am i >> misunderstanding something. >> > > Not quite. The stuff that didn't make it from Solaris Nevada into > OpenSolaris was pretty much everything that /couldn't/ be open-sourced, > or was being EOL'd in any case. We didn't really hold anything back > there. > > The better analogy is what Tim Cook pointed out, which is the version of > OpenSolaris that runs on the 7000-series storage devices. There's some > stuff on there that isn't going to be putback into the OpenSolaris > repos. > > > I don't know, and I certainly can't speak for the project, but I suspect > the type of enhancements which won't make it out into the OpenSolaris > repos are indeed ones like we ship with the 7000-series hardware. That > is, I doubt that you will be able to get an "OpenSolaris with Oracle > Improvements" software distro/package - the proprietary stuff will only > be used as part of a package bundle, since Oracle is big on > one-stop-integrated-solution things. > > > -- > Erik Trimble > Java System Support > Mailstop: usca22-123 > Phone: x17195 > Santa Clara, CA > Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
