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Open Solaris Community Advisory Board Announced

Posted by timothy on from the should-pass-a-law-or-at-least-form-a-committee dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun have announced the OpenSolaris community advisory board, chaired by Roy Felding (co founder and director of the Apache Foundatation), two community appointed people, Rich Teer and Al Hooper (both members of the infamous gang of six that helped to get Sun to restart Solaris x86) and two sun employees - well known open source evangelist Simon Phipps and kernel engineer Casper Dik. No date for the code release as of yet, but it can't be far off now."

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  1. Re:Sun's Idea by fintanr · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Actually this isn't the intention, its not, and never has been, about trying to get Linux developers to jump ship to OpenSolaris. There is a very large Solaris community out there already - they tend to be much more active on usenet and mail lists than on webforums, so people don't seem to see notice them as much.

    Innovation in OpenSolaris will drive innovation in Linux, BSD etc, and vice versa. The all round beneficary of all of this is the consumer, be they end users at home, or large datacenters.