http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/1061/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/745 <p>To save Solaris from a certain death ?</p> <p>Reading Planet MySQL the last couple of hours I'm trying really hard to convince myselve the Solaris offensive there is not orchestrated.. but I can't.<br /> It might ofcourse be the fresh MySQL users that Sun brought in on their platform that started out blogging but hey .. I`m paranoia right :)</p> <p>Are they really trying to get at least a fraction of the MySQL community on Solaris. Do they really think they can ? Yes they lost a zillion of Solaris customers that were running a proprietary database to MySQL on Linux users ,, but why would they want to move back to a semi proprietary setup ?</p> <p>According to Linuxjournal Alan Cox seems to think that ZFS is the only thing that is keeping Solaris alive. I don't think DTrace was a bigg mass tool that would convince the crowds to suddenly move to an other operating system.</p> <p>So is Sun trying to Lock In a community ? <a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/linux_kongress_linux_foundation_declares_os_x_a_luxury_jail" rel="nofollow">Other people</a> would call it a Jail, altough I wouldn't consider this particular type of jail a Luxury one :)</p> <p>Why can't Sun just drop the whole idea of building its own OS and contribute more , they are slowly learning in some other fields , but in the Operating System field they still haven't realised they should up the fight ... but then again .. I overheard someone say recently "The best fights to watch, are the ones that can't be won anymore .."</p> <p>So just remember .. the L in LAMP still stands for Linux,</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/745#comments alan cox dtrace free software jails james bottomley mysql open source opensource postgres proprietary slowaris solaris sun zfs Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:29:50 +0000 Kris Buytaert 745 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog