In no uncertain terms, the Director of Solaris product management at Oracle, Dan Roberts, says OpenSolaris will continue as an open source entity and Oracle will actively support and participate in the community. There are some questions regarding which direction Oracle will take in open sourcing some of OpenSolaris' technologies and the level of support that will be offered, but generally speaking, all is well, affirms Roberts.
Exactly how does one go about deploying a large number of zones on an M8000 Enterprise Server, especially given that twelve separate links would be needed for the different networks and twice that number for IPMP. In the course of answering this question for a customer, Steffen Weiberle came up with a number of suggestions in his blog "Solaris 10 Zones and Networking -- Common Considerations."
With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world's largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle's support didn't start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
An OpenSolaris Information Resources article describes what its author determined were the most important differences between OpenSolaris and Linux to assist new users interested in transitioning to OpenSolaris. The article covers the user interface, sudo command, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), top command, prstat command, and file systems. This article offers a brief overview of differences and does contain resource links on the topic for more indepth information.
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