On 8/13/10 8:56 PM -0600 Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13 at 19:06, Frank Cusack wrote: >> 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? > > These distributions are, in theory, the "gateway drug" where people > can experiment inexpensively to try out new technologies (ZFS, dtrace, > crossbow, comstar, etc.) and eventually step up to Oracle's "big iron" > as their business grows.
>I've never understood how OpenSolaris was supposed to get you to Solaris. >OpenSolaris is for enthusiasts and great great folks like Nexenta. >Solaris lags so far behind it's not really an upgrade path. Fedora is a great beta test arena for what eventually becomes a commercial Enterprise offering. OpenSolaris was the Solaris equivalent. Losing the free bleeding edge testing community will no doubt impact on the Solaris code quality. It is now even more likely Solaris will revert to it's niche on SPARC over the next few years. Mark. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
