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From: John D Groenveld on 14 Feb 2010 19:13 In article <55a52396-3856-4643-ac18-5c0695a570fc(a)l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, David Kirkby <drkirkby(a)gmail.com> wrote: >That's quite possibly true, but on SPARC hardware, that is not really >very viable. Why? >In any case, I rekon at least some people that use Open Solaris now >might think twice about it in future. I suspect Oracle could be >killing that off Redhat could try to kill Fedora, but I'm not sure how that benefits them. Of course, Larry Ellison might see a profit in trying to make Solaris a niche operating system by ending support for OpenSolaris that I just don't see. Is Ed Zander his confindant? Ed doesn't believe in volume. >A lot of people buy old SPARCs and run Solaris. Killing that off, >would IMHO, decrease the already small update of Solaris. Those people will either need to buy a support subscription for Solaris (or not and just live without patches until the next release update) or install OpenSolaris (or *BSD or *Linux) and self-support. >There are plenty of free linux distros - Ubunta, Debian etc. For >startup companies on a tight budget, they are looking more attractive >than Solaris. Hence those companies are likely to go with Linux rather >than Solaris. What's more attractive about those Linux distros than the OpenSolaris distros? I recently installed Ubuntu and Fedora in VirtualBox. The Ubuntu was the KDE variant which is pretty slick. I'm looking forward to KDE 4.4 packages. John groenveld(a)acm.org
From: Richard B. Gilbert on 14 Feb 2010 19:23
John D Groenveld wrote: > In article <55a52396-3856-4643-ac18-5c0695a570fc(a)l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, > David Kirkby <drkirkby(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> That's quite possibly true, but on SPARC hardware, that is not really >> very viable. > > Why? > >> In any case, I rekon at least some people that use Open Solaris now >> might think twice about it in future. I suspect Oracle could be >> killing that off > > Redhat could try to kill Fedora, but I'm not sure how that benefits > them. > > Of course, Larry Ellison might see a profit in trying to make > Solaris a niche operating system by ending support for OpenSolaris > that I just don't see. > Is Ed Zander his confindant? Ed doesn't believe in volume. > >> A lot of people buy old SPARCs and run Solaris. Killing that off, >> would IMHO, decrease the already small update of Solaris. > > Those people will either need to buy a support subscription for > Solaris (or not and just live without patches until the next release > update) or install OpenSolaris (or *BSD or *Linux) and self-support. > That's what I do. Live without patches, I mean. I used to be a professional system administrator. Now that I'm retired, I keep a couple of Solaris boxes around along with a Linux box and an OpenVMS box. I occasionally find a bit of work for one or another. Otherwise they help keep the house warm. ;-) |