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Quite a few financial companies have mission critical apps running on solaris. If a large bunch of developers emerges who carry the solaris torch forward I thin
by dman 16y ago
Quite a few financial companies have mission critical apps running on solaris. If a large bunch of developers emerges who carry the solaris torch forward I think funding will not be a problem.
- rbanffy 16y agoThe CDDL may be a problem for a new Red Hat or Canonical that decide to take OpenSolaris/Illumos forward.
- hakl 16y agoIt's not GPL-compatible, but it's an FSF- and OSI-approved license.
- rbanffy 16y agoOne of the incentives to use GPL-like licenses is that your competitors cannot take your contributions and run with them and, at the same time, have to make their contributions available to you. This is the model that made Red Hat possible. It would not happen on top of BSD.
- nailer 16y agoSince about 2005 most large banks have started deploying on Linux for most new projects. The place I'm at now, which is one of the most conservative environments - NIS, heaps of Sol 8 under Vintage support, 15 year old home grown perl scripts for config management, etc - has a minimal amount of Linux skills amongst the day to day support staff, just declared Solaris a non-strategic platform.
- rbanffy 16y agoThe question is how many banks do you need to subsidize the evolution of OpenSolaris/Illumos? Considering what a Sun/Oracle support contract costs, not many.