[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

[Ian Collins]

Jesus Cea wrote:
> On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote:
>>> Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY
>>> interested in a security supported version.
>> How much are you willing to pay for this service?
>>
>> Oracle charges $1k/year per socket.
> I would actually pay something.
>
> But consider this:
>
> * I can't deploy OpenIndiana without some kind of security updates.
>
> * I have tons of clients evaluating OpenIndiana, being amazed by ZFS
> and DTrace, but can't consider seriously since there is no security plan.
>
> An OpenIndiana future goes thru an official OI release, with security
> fixes for a while. Those markets are, currently, closed for OI.
>
> About how costly this could be, Red Hat is a huge business. And we
> could follow a major Linux release, like Debian or Ubuntu, to track
> security notifications/patches. Maybe even a community security
> supported version.
>

The popular Linux distributions all have a commercial backer, OI does 
not.  It's as simple as that.

There are other Illumos based distributions that do have a commercial 
backer, maybe you would be better off with one of those?

It's a reflection of commercial reality that those distributions focus 
on specific market segments.  It would be nice to have a backed general 
purpose OS to rival Solaris, but the demand doesn't seem to be there.

-- 
Ian.