On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> It is true there's no new build published in the last 3 months. But you
> can't use that to assume they're killing the community.
Hmm, the community seems to think they're killing the community:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/14/1448209/OpenSolaris-Governing-Board-Closing-Shop?from=rss
ZFS is great. It's pretty much the only reason we're running Solaris. But I
don't have much confidence Oracle Solaris is going to be a product I'm
going to want to run in the future. We barely put our ZFS stuff into
production last year but quite frankly I'm already on the lookout for
something to replace it.
No new version of OpenSolaris (which we were about to start migrating to).
No new update of Solaris 10. *Zero* information about what the hell's going
on...
ZFS will surely live on as the filesystem under the hood in the doubtlessly
forthcoming Oracle "database appliances", and I'm sure they'll keep selling
their NAS devices. But for home users? I doubt it. I was about to build a
big storage box at home running OpenSolaris, I froze that project. Oracle
is all about the money. Which I guess is why they're succeeding and Sun
failed to the point of having to sell out to them. My home use wasn't
exactly going to make them a profit, but on the other hand, the philosophy
that led to my not using the product at home is a direct cause of my lack
of desire to continue using it at work, and while we're not exactly a huge
client we've dropped a decent penny or two in Sun's wallet over the years.
Who knows, maybe Oracle will start to play ball before August 16th and the
OpenSolaris Governing Board won't shut themselves down. But I wouldn't hold
my breath.
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