[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and part2

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 02/02/2012 12:04 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> I take it that the once-promised/planned kernel source release for
> Solaris 11 is officially canceled...
> 
> Frankly, this whole situation reminds me a bit of the situation with
> Borland's InterBase DBMS. First, it was released as open source and
> then new owners got cold feet and took it closed again. Since that
> point, the fork of the last open release (now known as Firebird) has
> continued strong, while the closed version has essentially sunk
> without a trace. Unless Oracle wises up, I forsee a similar outcome in
> Solaris-land.

I'd love for that to be true, but so far, OpenIndiana is really quite
far off its intended goals. I'd love to be able to deploy OI in
production environments with the peace of mind that comes with
commercial support, but so far, that's been pretty lacking (and
NexentaStor isn't for me, I need a proper general purpose OS without all
the weird storage GUIs and Nexenta's, frankly, somewhat specialized
per-storage-volume licensing model). As much as I love Solaris,
currently Oracle is the only game in town when it comes to acceptable
support and compared to your average RHEL/CentOS, their pricing is just
way out through the stratosphere...

Cheers,
--
Saso