19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
7:09 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 05:54:00PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 9:20 AM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Yeah, I'm not a Solaris fan (because SunOS) but there was some good
technology in there. Would have been cool if IBM kept it going. I
never really understood why Sun was up for sale.
Pretty unrealistic to expect the users to
suddenly have the time to do
kernel dev. Solaris opened sourced itself and it's dead.
That one's not entirely on the users.
There's plenty of blame for Oracle as well.
I was the person nominally in charge of the OpenSolaris port to z (Neale
Ferguson did most of the heavy lifting) when Sine Nomine built it, having
read the tea leaves and believing that IBM would buy Sun. And then IBM
tightened the screws a little too far and Larry Ellison grabbed it
instead. Dammit.