[OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

[Nikola M]

On 01/18/17 08:52 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc/oracle-sparc/sparc-roadmap-slide-2076743.pdf
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> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece

Apart form Christian references.. ;) (that actually never came into life 
or were constantly coming again , for one's frame of reference),
I only see renaming it to 11.x and stating in Alan's posted PDF link, 
S11.x support is there for long after 2021, but 2031 and 2034.
(http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf)
" Solaris 11 follows a Continuous Delivery model, where new 
functionality is delivered as updates to the existing release; upgrades 
are not required to gain access to new features and capabilities. As a 
result, Support dates are evaluated for update annually, and will be 
provided through at least the dates above. "

last time I checked, SPARC S7 was faster per-core and more cost 
efficient then x86 in it's cost/performance league. 
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/edison-sparc-s7-wp-3395977.pdf
Also Oracle cloud on SPARC sounds like better bang for a buck for faster 
CPU performance for the same amount as for x86.
I think Oracle is actually slowly coming back to (real) life, but it's 
coming back is slow (with sales management pressure in mind and covered 
with software licensing burdens) that it is not noticeable at first.

OI and other illumos distributions are not there to replace Solaris at 
all, they are there to complement other distros and solutions for it's 
own use cases and thanking to Copyleft licensing it wil be there forever 
available.
And one doesn't need Linux distro/kernel to run Linux binaries or Docker 
containers in SmartOS and possibly in the future Openindiana will cover 
that too.

So I don't see it as any kind of "end is near" type of event, because 
"new beginnings" always start with something like that :) (and random 
uneducated "media" bashing)

Openindiana community is better off trying to fix illumos and 
Openindiana issues and prepare to be more production-ready in all 
aspects, including financing, ideas, organization but most importantly 
new maintainers and contributors of all kind.

We like it open, we like it in a better way, (tm) then Other free 
software distros :P