On 8/14/10 4:01 AM +0700 "C. Bergström" wrote:
Gary Mills wrote:
If this information is correct,
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133043
further development of ZFS will take place behind closed doors.
Opensolaris will become the internal development version of Solaris
with no public distributions. The community has been abandoned.
It was a community of system administrators and nearly no developers.
While this may make big news the real impact is probably pretty small.
I agree!
Source code updates will get tossed over the fence and developer partners
(Intel) will still have access to onnv-gate.
In a way i see this as a very good thing. It will not *force* the
^^^
You must have meant "now"?
existing (small) community of companies and developers to band together
to actually work together. From there the real open source momentum can
happen instead of everyone depending on Sun/Oracle to give them a free
lunch. The first step that I've been adamant about is making it easier
for developers to play and get their hands on it.. If "we" can enable
that it'll swing things around regardless of what mega-corp does or
doesn't do...
Interesting POV, and I agree. Most of the many "distributions" of
OpenSolaris had very little value-add. Nexenta was the most interesting
and why should Oracle enable them to build a business at their expense?
-frank
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