Schwartz wouldn't say when it would happen, but he was adamant that Solaris would indeed be open-sourced one way or another.
Anticipating the community's resistance to Sun's reluctance to follow the GPL route for licensing, Schwartz added:
"Look, you only need to look at what we've done with Java to understand how Sun views the value of incorporating community feedback."
The Java community will have its own view on that, but the point was well made.
Eric S. Raymond, in an interview, commented: "If [Sun] don't get this done within six months, it's not going to matter at all because Linux is advancing too fast."
Sun has not yet disclosed what kind of license Solaris would be released under, nor when.
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TJ wrote: Sun is actually
doing some great stuff.
I am a long-time Unix
person, working with all
Unix variants, recently
Linux, etc..
I must say that NO OS
compares to the stability
and functionality of
Solaris, hands-down. One
enterprise Q that I pose
is : "How can a large
corporation depend on
Linux, when no schedules
of releases, bug fixes,
etc.. can be made.. ??..
aside from a single
vendor creating a
'proprietary' fix for
their version of linux...
??" The same goes for
Enterprise Support...
I've seen many issues
where the Linux vendor
(as do MicroSoft) blames
the 3rd party HBA vendor,
who blames the External
storage vendor, who
blames the device
driver... taking weeks to
resolve !!.. this stuff
doesn't happen with
Solaris.. (most reliable,
available, supportable OS
available, at the best
cost..)
Solaris 10 kick
...
History wrote: Sun get
married with Microsoft.
Everyone seen it.
Such as people say that
"Sun give up his future"
So disappointed.
Where Sun expert can
do/go? Goto Microsoft.
There is your home.
Byebye Sun.
Layton wrote: I'll
believe it when I see it.
Until then, I have to
agree with jruschme and
some of the other
doubters here. This looks
to me like a safe bet
that it will be called
off because of licensing
restrictions. Java
wouldn't be locked up
that way if Sun really
wanted to open source it,
but then they might have
to put up or shut up.
On the other hand they do
sponsor Open Office, and
they just might be
reading the same book
that IBM has and finally
realize that there isn't
any big money left in
operating systems.
On the other hand, if the
hardware is free, and the
operating system is free,
and the application stack
is free - what will Sun
propose to make it's
living with? Java? Or do
they think that they will
make their money on
support services like IBM
and Red Hat do? Of course
IBM sells or leases
hardware becaus...
RP wrote: I dont want any
so called open source if
its based on SCO owned
UNIX code. Linux is free
of all that BS. What is
the value in this to
anybody, looks like more
liability for everyone?
If Sun wants news why
dont they make Linux run
excellently on their
highend multi >32cpu
Sparc boxes. Or release
java as open source, Im
starting to see the value
in that.
jruschme wrote: Okay,
help me out here... I
thought that Solaris was
basically SVr4 Unix with
a bunch of Sun extensions
(OpenWindows, etc.). If
so, then isn't the core
OS tied up somewhere in
the whole
Novell/Caldera/SCO mess?
Or am I missing something
here?
secondsun wrote: This
move is just a FUD
announcement against Red
Hat and Microsoft who are
kicking Sun's ass in
terms of name
recognition, performance,
price, availability,
compatibility, etc.
gspr wrote: Open source
but non-free (as in
Freedom) software has its
problems, even for those
of us who love openness.
There will always be some
idiot developer who has
been reading a lot of
non-free, open Sun code
who decides to contribute
something to a GPL'ed
project such as Linux -
and boom, there you have
it - disaster! It's
"impossible" for the
maintainers of Free
software to be 100 % sure
that contributed code is
not already distributed
under a non-Free license.
DFJA wrote: I bet you
they will make sure that
whatever licence they use
is GPL-incompatible. That
way Solaris code can't be
incorporated into Linux.
They are in effect trying
to splinter the Open
Source world - in a way
that benefits them, and
ultimately, Micro$oft.
On the assumption that
this is what they do, I
wouldn't go near this
with a bargepole. They
are clearly not motivated
by wanting to make Open
Source (and in particular
GPL) software better,
only that they think they
can drive a wedge into
the Open Source movement
for their own gain.
jdigital wrote: Solaris
has already been open
source, depending on your
personal definition of
'open'. But I purchased
the full source to
x86/SPARC off the Sun
site 4 years ago - it
cost me around $40. They
canned that program
pretty quick.
IBM announced two new
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ParAccel announced it has
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Under the terms of the
agreement, ParAccel will
embed IBM InfoSphere
Change Data Capture
within the ParAccel
Analytic Database,
providing ParAccel
customers with seamless
and real-time u
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