[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote:
>
> Also, number of people involved in OS maintenance made me suggest SmartOS or 
> OmniIT...

OmniOS succeeds due to its quite limited scope rather than a large 
number of maintainers.  It leaves the responsibility for providing 
common server applications (e.g. Apache) to others.  SFE is in a 
fledgling state for OmniOS, but might prove to be a significant future 
source of applications (in addition to Joyent-supported pkgsrc and 
third parties who have provided public access to their IPS packages).

SmartOS does not likely have a large number of maintainers either, but 
Joyent has bet its future on it.  SmartOS also succeeds by limiting 
its scope.

OpenIndiana has a much larger scope given how many packages it offers 
by default.

Bob
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