[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

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On 05/12/2015 21:16, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 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

Dear Bob,

I would like to see a foundation registered in the UK in early 2016 to 
receive donations and sponsorship similar to Libre Office.This will help 
with some of the development objectives outlined.

Regards


Robert Jones