Right now, Sun has two markets for Solaris, that being the people whoalready run Solaris (their current customers), and the people that Sunwould like to persuade to run Solaris, based on attractive things likeZFS and DTrace.

The first group has generally been running Solaris for years (usually onSPARC, which is one reason that it lingers on). They care a lot aboutbackwards compatibility, and so they want Solaris administration and soon to keep working just the way they are used to.

The

I have a confession: for all that I use it fairly often, I am a fairlybasic user of vi. As such, I have a pretty unsophisticated view ofwhat vi is; if I type ' vi ' and something starts up that behaves likevi and is not too freakishly super-intelligent ,I call it vi and don't think more about it, regardless of the nameof the actual implementation. Unless I actively think about it, I'monly vaguely aware that there are at least

One of the issues with allowing self-signed SSL certificates to beautomatically used for transparent encryption over https URLs is theproblems that they cause for server-side applications.

Right now, a server-side program that care can more or less assume thata SSL-encrypted connection means either that it is securely talkingto the real end user's machine or that the end user has been activelycompromised (which it can't do anything about). It may thus use thingslike 'you can only talk