19 Jan
2017
19 Jan
'17
5:39 p.m.
Well, they are probably reacting to what their customers want which, in my experience
working at a fairly typical customer up to a couple of years ago, is indeed Linux.
That's kind of sad, but Linux, much though I'd like to hate it, is unfortunately
both a significantly more pleasant experience as a user & administrator, and a lot
easier to hire people for. It's 20 years too late for Solaris to have a future.
On 19 Jan 2017, at 14:40, Arthur Krewat
<krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
Let's hope they do the right thing and release Solaris into the wild again. ZFS in
particular.
Personally, I think they are making a huge mistake. What are they going to do, move to
Linux? Oh, right... the "cloud" will be Linux.
Blech.
On 1/19/2017 3:49 AM, Wesley Parish wrote:
I suppose that set of rumours will lead to people shifting to the FOSS versions
of Solaris and SPARC.
Wesley Parish
Quoting Kay Parker <kayparker(a)mailite.com>:
guess it is the beginning of the end of Solaris
and the Sparc CPU:
'Rumors have been circulating since late last year that Oracle was
planning to kill development of the Solaris operating system, with
major
layoffs coming to the operating system's development team. Others
speculated that future versions of the Unix platform Oracle acquired
with Sun Microsystems would be designed for the cloud and built for the
Intel platform only and that the SPARC processor line would meet its
demise. The good news, based on a recently released Oracle roadmap for
the SPARC platform, is that both Solaris and SPARC appear to have a
future.
The bad news is that the next major version of Solaris—Solaris 12—
has
apparently been canceled, as it has disappeared from the roadmap.
Instead, it's been replaced with "Solaris 11.next"—and that version
is
apparently the only update planned for the operating system through
2021.
With its on-premises software and hardware sales in decline, Oracle has
been undergoing a major reorganization over the past two years as it
attempts to pivot toward the cloud. Those changes led to a major speed
bump in the development cycle for Java Enterprise Edition, a slowdown
significant enough that it spurred something of a Java community
revolt.
Oracle later announced a new roadmap for Java EE that recalibrated
expectations, focusing on cloud services features for the next version
of the software platform. '
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/oracle-sort-of-confir…
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