[oi-dev] State of development

[Ken Gunderson]

At Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:51:37 -0700 (PDT),
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> Presently my commercial websites and mail servers run on OpenBSD, but I am in the
> process of moving them to either OpenIndiana, FreeBSD, or NetBSD.  I have more than
> a decade using Solaris in the enterprise for some very large companies, so my
> knowledge of Solaris gives OI a step ahead of the competition.
> 
> FreeBSD does have DTrace and ZFS, but ZFS is installed by default by OI (of
> course).  But OI also gives me the opportunity to run Solaris binaries such as
> ooRexx and DB2 that the others cannot run.  FreeBSD does have ooRexx 3.0 available,
> but only for the i386 architecture, and I need amd64.
> 
> The OI website seems to not be mostly unmaintained and although the openindiana.org
> site is available, the few mirrors that did or do exist seem to be shutting down.
> 
> I would certainly like to use OI, but I'm concerned about the state.
> 
> OI's last release was Oct 2012, so my question is when is the next release (151a8)
> scheduled to be released? 
> 

Consider using SmartOS to host vm's of FreeBSD for your bread and
butter apps.  Then you still have Solaris goodness for e.g. ooRexx and
DB2.  Note, however, that I have no clue as to current status of
either on SmartOS.

Good luck-- Ken