[rescue] Oracle kills Solaris

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 07:12:13 CDT 2017


I presume everyone's aware of this?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/04/oracle_layoffs_solaris_sparc_teams/

Oracle has laid off ~2,500 Solaris and SPARC developers, leaving a
tiny remnant, presumably to fulfil some support contracts.

Apart from the forks -- Illumos, SmartOS etc. -- that's it. It appears
that Solaris is dead. Sad times.

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