Dopo una lunga pausa invernale senza rilevanti novità da scrivere sul blog, oggi mi sono imbattuto in una novità poco gradita: Oracle ha modificato i termini di licenza di Solaris 10 , forcing users to sign a support contract in order to use the software . For me it's a bit 'a low blow: Even if OpenSolaris is free and freely usable, Solaris 10 was, in my opinion, the only alternative to the Linux platform and much more stable overall.
OpenSolaris is unusable for installing Oracle, first because it is completely unsupported and also because of many missing packages required during installation and not easily replaceable.
OpenSolaris is also much more oriented to the desktop, not the server.
Of course, it is likely that support will not be an unbearable cost to businesses of all size, but is still a possible reason for lack of preference over other platforms.
As I have provided a broad outline, is destined to become the Solaris operating system in elite Oracle server, while Linux is for the market of medium-low. But this could have repercussions on OpenSolaris and the community in general free, we'll see.
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