[rescue] Solaris being discontinued? Rumors flying

[Meelis Roos]

> I wonder what that means for SPARC.  Didn't Oracle just launch the 
> SPARC S7 servers this summer?  The rumor says that Solaris is ending 
> because of the cloud push, but Oracle just launched Solaris on S7 in 
> their cloud this past summer as well.

On recent interesting trend that I have noticed is a group or Oracle 
devcelopers working on sparclinux. First there were 2-3 devs asking 
questions and sending patches, but the number has clearly grown.

Maybe Oracle sees Linux as the future for its SPARC OS? In that case, 
they have a of work to do, for many corner cases, performance tweaks and 
normal QA. Solaris has been notalke for its engineering and QA, Linux 
has been more random at that.

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Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)