open letter to oracle (by Ben Rockwood)
Francisco Javier Garcia <sistemas <at> pkisistemas.com>
2010-02-03 20:43:20 GMT
OPEN LETTER TO ORACLE: (Open)Solaris Roadmap
02 Feb '10 - 22:06 by
benr
Dear Oracle,
Congratulations on the EU approval of your acquisition of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. Many of us in the various Sun communities spent
years working closely with Oracle products on Sun technology and feel
right at home being part to the Oracle family. The business savvy and
dedication to customer success will be a welcome change in the
direction of all of Sun's technologies.
While the strategy webcasts and FAQs have been fantastic, there are
many questions customers have regarding the future of Solaris,
OpenSolaris and the technologies within. It's no secret that for
several months Oracle has been involved to some degree in Sun
engineering directions and therefore it does not seem unreasonable to
ask for answers even so soon after the EU green-light.
First, and of foremost concern, is the future of the Solaris product
for enterprise customer, currently "Solaris 10". Will there be a
Solaris 11? (It would fit nicely with Oracle's scheme, btw.) Will it be
compatible with existing Solaris technologies (Jumpstart, SysV PKGs,
etc) or will the existing path to scrap these technologies in favor of
new and unproven solutions created within the OpenSolaris platform be
chosen instead?
Please understand that until recently customers could choose the
traditional product (Solaris 10), the advanced development product
(OpenSolaris Distribution), or use the bridge between these two worlds:
Solaris Express Community Edition(SX:CE). However, with SX:CE's recent
retirement Solaris shops are forced to make a choice: go forward and
accept uncomfortable and disruptive changes of OpenSolaris Distro or
fall back into the technically inferior but fully supported and well
understood Solaris 10. Sadly, some are opting to leave all together due
to a lack of direction.
Decisions need to be made and customers need guidance in order to
make them. Consistent with Sun's legacy, the OpenSolaris project has
been phenomenally successful in empowering customers and driving
innovation, however management has continually failed to produce a
coherent roadmap for enterprises to bank on.
Therefore, I would humbly ask that Oracle definitively provide guidance on the following:
- A roadmap for enterprise Solaris customers
- Guarantees with regard to the well-being and sustained
viability of OpenSolaris as an Open Source community (independent of
"OpenSolaris" as a distribution)
- Future support and development for Solaris virtualization
technologies, namely xVM (the best Xen solution in the industry thanks
to ZFS, Crossbow, FMA, etc.) and Containers (the best Xen alternative
in the industry), with respect to how they will compliment, supplement
or be replaced by "Oracle VM"
I look forward to these details which will hopefully put an end to
the Solaris FUD and put us back on a path of profitable and productive
growth, for the sake of the community, customers, and Oracle itself.
Ben Rockwood
(Open)Solaris Developer & Evangelist
Interesante el primer comentario...
Oracle talks a lot, but they’re not saying much. And certainly nothing
of any real substance. Hence your open letter. My read is that Sun is
dead and Solaris, as a freely available stand alone Unix, days are
numbered. Not to mention MySQL. You have been assimilated. Welcome to
the collective. Now give us all your money.
Nope. I don’t think so. After spending the past couple years
patiently rolling things over to Open/Solaris, now it’s time to start
the search anew…. Bummer because technically Solaris is excellent, but
there’s no way in hell I’m going to trust Oracle to “do the right
thing”. Another for the annals of great engineering and innovation
driven to ruin by incompetent management. Where do they find these
idiots?
<div>
<h2>OPEN LETTER TO ORACLE: (Open)Solaris Roadmap</h2>
02 Feb '10 - 22:06 by <a href="mailto:benr <at> cuddletech.com" title="Email benr">benr</a><br><br><p>
Dear Oracle,
</p>
<p>
Congratulations on the EU approval of your acquisition of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. Many of us in the various Sun communities spent
years working closely with Oracle products on Sun technology and feel
right at home being part to the Oracle family. The business savvy and
dedication to customer success will be a welcome change in the
direction of all of Sun's technologies.
</p>
<p>While the strategy webcasts and FAQs have been fantastic, there are
many questions customers have regarding the future of Solaris,
OpenSolaris and the technologies within. It's no secret that for
several months Oracle has been involved to some degree in Sun
engineering directions and therefore it does not seem unreasonable to
ask for answers even so soon after the EU green-light.
</p>
<p>First, and of foremost concern, is the future of the Solaris product
for enterprise customer, currently "Solaris 10". Will there be a
Solaris 11? (It would fit nicely with Oracle's scheme, btw.) Will it be
compatible with existing Solaris technologies (Jumpstart, SysV PKGs,
etc) or will the existing path to scrap these technologies in favor of
new and unproven solutions created within the OpenSolaris platform be
chosen instead?
</p>
<p>Please understand that until recently customers could choose the
traditional product (Solaris 10), the advanced development product
(OpenSolaris Distribution), or use the bridge between these two worlds:
Solaris Express Community Edition(SX:CE). However, with SX:CE's recent
retirement Solaris shops are forced to make a choice: go forward and
accept uncomfortable and disruptive changes of OpenSolaris Distro or
fall back into the technically inferior but fully supported and well
understood Solaris 10. Sadly, some are opting to leave all together due
to a lack of direction.
</p>
<p>Decisions need to be made and customers need guidance in order to
make them. Consistent with Sun's legacy, the OpenSolaris project has
been phenomenally successful in empowering customers and driving
innovation, however management has continually failed to produce a
coherent roadmap for enterprises to bank on. </p>
<p>
Therefore, I would humbly ask that Oracle definitively provide guidance on the following:
</p>
<ul>
<li>A roadmap for enterprise Solaris customers
</li>
<li>Guarantees with regard to the well-being and sustained
viability of OpenSolaris as an Open Source community (independent of
"OpenSolaris" as a distribution)
</li>
<li>Future support and development for Solaris virtualization
technologies, namely xVM (the best Xen solution in the industry thanks
to ZFS, Crossbow, FMA, etc.) and Containers (the best Xen alternative
in the industry), with respect to how they will compliment, supplement
or be replaced by "Oracle VM"
</li>
</ul>
<p>I look forward to these details which will hopefully put an end to
the Solaris FUD and put us back on a path of profitable and productive
growth, for the sake of the community, customers, and Oracle itself.
</p>
<p>
Ben Rockwood<br>
(Open)Solaris Developer & Evangelist</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>Interesante el primer comentario...</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>Oracle talks a lot, but they’re not saying much. And certainly nothing
of any real substance. Hence your open letter. My read is that Sun is
dead and Solaris, as a freely available stand alone Unix, days are
numbered. Not to mention MySQL. You have been assimilated. Welcome to
the collective. Now give us all your money.<br><br> Nope. I don’t think so. After spending the past couple years
patiently rolling things over to Open/Solaris, now it’s time to start
the search anew…. Bummer because technically Solaris is excellent, but
there’s no way in hell I’m going to trust Oracle to “do the right
thing”. Another for the annals of great engineering and innovation
driven to ruin by incompetent management. Where do they find these
idiots?
</p>
<p><br></p>
<p><br></p>
</div>
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