[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

[Nikola M]

Cia Watson wrote:
> When I looked at the details for licensing, it suggests one contact their
> sales person and then if you don't have a sales person you can fill in a
> form and someone will contact you. It may be they have tiered pricing or
>   
That licensing of Oracle is very much of a mystery.  (And uncertainty is
not a friend)

If I am expected for paying 1000's USD only to be able to use it on my
laptop or server, I will say them to go to hell and use OpenIndiana. I
can live without ZFS encryption for time being, anyway.
I need newer apps publisher/repository for OpenIndiana, fixed issues
that could stop people of using it and to gradually import missing
features in Illumos/OI that most people think that can be of use.

I think you could look at Solaris Express as to just one more closed
source joke from Oracle.

The difference is that you CAN use OpenIndiana in production for every
use and are not fighting by usage types as for oracle Solaris. You are
legal for Every use with OpenIndiana.
 
On the other hand, most of Code/Software consolidations, besides ON/Net
are open.
I suppose IPS packages should be made in a way that they can be used
together in OpenIndiana (As OpenSolaris continuation) and Solaris11.

Important question to me is: How close OpenIndiana is to
Solaris11(Express) now and what are major issues in having compatibility.
One that I am thinking of is X server. As I heared some time before, it
is upgraded or upgrading to newer version of X.org, and is followed by
new Intel graphic drivers that will be coming in the spring of next
year. I think that could be major issue if OI do not catch up with other
consolidations (and the issue are also ON dependencies of other
consolidation, regarding ON is closed source for time being).