[rescue] Oracle kills Solaris

[Jerry Kemp]

I'm always disappointed when one of these rumors comes out, and people from this 
list jump on the band wagon, buy it all, hook, line and sinker.  Start stating 
how sad it is that Solaris is now gone.

This literally just happened less than a year ago from some place called 
"thelayoff.com".  Turned out that Oracle decided that they were jumping on the 
same OS naming convention that m$ windows and Apple Mac OS X was doing.  But 
Solaris was "dead" then also.

And ultimately, didn't anyone see Alan Coopersmith, head X11 guy, post on the 
OpenIndiana list just a couple of days ago?

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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially dead?


No.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

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The IT world is a crazy place, and sure, anything can happen.  I will believe 
its dead when I hear it from Oracle.  I'm sad for anyone who gets laid off and 
looses their job.  The Register is just a "trade rag" with mixed accuracy at best.


Jerry



On 09/ 6/17 07:12 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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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