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Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the long-time-coming dept.

daria42 writes "It looks like an anonymous post on OSNews.com claiming OpenSolaris is vaporware was the last straw for two frustrated Sun Microsystems developers. They have responded furiously on their official Sun blogs, saying that they are currently working 'feverishly' on the project, and that it was taking so long because of the need to get rid of legal encumbrances to releasing the code. 'OpenSolaris certainly exists,' Sun kernel developer Alan Hargreaves says on his Sun blog. 'You only have to speak to anyone involved in getting it out there. There are a lot of us out there who both do and do not work for Sun.'"

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  1. In other news.. by asterix_2k1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    twelve thousand monkeys furiously coding for 3DRealms posted that Duke Nukem Forever should be out anytime soon...

  2. what month is it? by Daniel+Ellard · · Score: 5, Insightful
    OpenSolaris is supposed to appear in July. Did I oversleep today, or isn't it still May?

    It's a bit unfair to start calling something vaporware two months before the scheduled release.

    (I don't work on Solaris/OpenSolaris, so I have no special knowledge about the project, except that I know people are working are working on it.)

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    Disclaimer: I work for a company, but I don't speak for them.
  3. both do and do not work for Sun by Threni · · Score: 5, Funny

    > There are a lot of us out there who both do and do not work for Sun

    Wow! Quantum programmers!

  4. vaporware actually means something by justins · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Vaporware" refers to software which the publisher never intended to release, news of which was intended to have an effect on the market.

    Slipping on your release date would make just about every software product "vaporware", you retards.

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    Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
  5. Correct English by Morosoph · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporwear Claims
    'Refute' here should really read 'Deny': the proof is yet to come.
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    Wikileaks, no DNS
  6. If you're a regular reader of OSNews ... by nemaispuke · · Score: 5, Informative
    then you would know that that the guy who posted is a known troll and despite the efforts of Alan and other Sun employees who monitor OSNews this guy was still "foaming at the mouth". In fact one of the trolls posted his "parting shot" was to call Solaris users "nazis"! I think all of the posts in question have been pulled, because I could not find them.

    The problem with OSNews is that it seems to attract the "bottom feeder" users who have little real experience and tend to bitch and whine like children rather than to respond with well thought out arguments and present facts. I have caught people using FUD and outright lies to support their "positions" that Linux is better than Solaris. Well see ...

  7. Re:Stuff that matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    bugged for code that was promised over a year ago

    You are obviously not familiar with corporate marketing. Or, for that matter, with marketing in general. Do you get mad at George Lucas because he promised Episode III almost five years ago (when he started Episode I)? Do you get mad because they started marketing it a year ago? Do you get mad because they started to release teaser trailers a couple of months ago? Do you get mad because they started running real trailers a few weeks ago? Shouldn't they just keep quiet about the whole thing and just release the trailers when the movie is done and out?

    Of course not, they have to create buzz to let people know what is coming and to build an audience.

    Sun didn't promise to release the code a year ago, they announced they would be releasing it. They've been pretty consistent in saying that it would be end of Q2. There's not been any reason to doubt that it will happen when they say.

  8. Re:What about a sample? by blastwave · · Score: 5, Informative


    It will get released when everything is ready.

    I don't work for Sun but I have been in the OpenSolaris pilot from Day One and I can tell you that I have been working like mad with it as have others. Myself and James Dickens worked night and day over the past weekend to build the OS on an E4000 as well as a LX50 machine for both enterprise class implementations and server room work. You can see the results of the workstation build at Blastwave.org and you need to watch James Dickens blog as well as mine to see progress that happens OUTSIDE of Sun. Not to mention the PowerPC port project at BlastWare which will also make progress when some other bits are in place. There are partnerships in place to work on the PowerPC port and GENESI is behind this as well as others.

    Power is a big deal folks. Think of OpenSolaris on your IBM big iron also.

    So go make a coffee and relax. Its coming real soon now.

    Dennis Clarke
    Director Blastwave.org
    http://www.blastwave.org/