Wednesday Jan 26, 2005

Sources Close to the Company: Part II

With all the excitement on OpenSolaris these last few days, I missed this one yesterday -- "Open-Source Java Under Consideration." It's another one of those "sources close to the company" stories:

Sources close to the Santa Clara, Calif., company said Sun is considering opening the JES using the CDDL. If that happens, "everything that is built at Sun would pretty much fall under the CDDL," one source said.

This one has been bouncing around for a while, and I've heard more about it in the press than I have in my own company. But, to be honest, I haven't worked with the Java technology guys in two years, so you got me. JohnnyL mentioned it in the OpenSolaris press conference today in response to a question, but who knows. Could be cool, though, don't you think?


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Jan 26, 2005

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Instant Attraction

I love this quote from Mark Webbink, Red Hat's associate general counsel in eWeek's "Analysts: Sun's Open Solaris Plans Face Problems."

"It's not about the license, it's about the community," he said. "So how is Sun going to instantly attract hundreds or thousands of developers to Solaris when they have never had the opportunity to work with the source code before?"

This really pisses me off. Is "instantly" the new standard now? My goodness. Is it ok with you if we build our community based on a slightly more responsible timetable? Instantly is a ridiculous standard in this context and demonstrates quite clearly that some people are worried. The OpenSolaris community is out there and it's organizing -- it's the entire Solaris market. Ben makes this point specifically in his blog, and he's one guy who is already working with the code and already has a build. The OpenSolaris Pilot Program guys, about 70 of 'em now with a few dozen more on the way, are busy working on OpenSolaris with Sun's kernel engineering team. We're still in beta here. So, cut us some slack on the "instantly" bit. Don't worry, though. We're coming. Trust me. This is just the first step. Keep watching ...

Jan 26, 2005

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OpenSolaris: Some Post Announcement News



Some more coverage of OpenSolaris today ...


Jan 26, 2005

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Slashdot

OpenSolaris on Slashdot.

Jan 26, 2005

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OpenSolaris: Some Pre-Announcement Press



Here are some news links leading up to today's OpenSolaris announcement from the last couple of days. I can see I have a lot of reading to do. And I'm sure I've missed a bunch, too.

Jan 26, 2005

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