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Oracle Promises to Commit to SPARC, Solaris

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 19:41 UTC, submitted by poundsmack

There we are! It took them a while, but Oracle has finally said a few things about the future of Sun's SPARC and Solaris products. Oracle placed an ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal listing four plans the company has with SPARC and Solaris.

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RE[5]: They should have done this sooner.

by binarycrusader on Sat 12th Sep 2009 04:18 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: They should have done this sooner."

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2005-07-06

"I'll put it very plainly, I know *many* of the engineers that work on Solaris at Sun and they haven't gone anywhere

The good ones have already left. "

No, they haven't. If you were involved in the OpenSolaris community, this would be obvious.

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RE[6]: They should have done this sooner.

by segedunum on Sun 13th Sep 2009 22:13 in reply to "RE[5]: They should have done this sooner."

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2005-07-06

No, they haven't. If you were involved in the OpenSolaris community, this would be obvious.

What OpenSolaris 'community' would this be, exactly? The only reference implementation you are allowed to call 'OpenSolaris' is Sun's and that's Nevada. It's not exactly a community by any stretch. It seems that many Solaris engineers are quite right to be worried about the future though:

http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/the-state-of-oracle-linu...

"Oracle definitely runs on Linux. We have very few servers in our infrastructure that are not Linux; that support, you know, internal IT systems, very few. And even the ones that continue to exist are on a plan to be phased out. So we definitely run our business on Linux. In fact, I mean, our entire IT infrastructure is Linux, our entire development infrastructure as well. So, you know, our development platform is Oracle Enterprise Linux. Our test platform is Oracle Enterprise Linux."

The software side of the business would seem even more certain than the hardware side, because software is Oracle's business. If they want to keep the hardware business as they say they want to then they will neeed very deep pockets indeed, as well as talent.

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RE[7]: They should have done this sooner.

by binarycrusader on Mon 14th Sep 2009 05:52 in reply to "RE[6]: They should have done this sooner."

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2005-07-06

"No, they haven't. If you were involved in the OpenSolaris community, this would be obvious.

What OpenSolaris 'community' would this be, exactly? The only reference implementation you are allowed to call 'OpenSolaris' is Sun's and that's Nevada. It's not exactly a community by any stretch. "

Sorry, but unless you've ever been to the OpenSolaris Developer's Conferences (I have), or been to JavaOne, or been part of the OpenSolaris community, then you really aren't qualified to say what is and what is not the community. Since I've done all of that, I am.

I know many of the engineers at Sun, you do not.

I've been to JavaOne, Community One, I'm guessing you have not.

I have been part of the OpenSolaris community (which you claim doesn't exist) since early 2006, and you have not.

So far, you haven't done anything but quote rumours, and made wild accusations about Sun's core Solaris talent leaving. None of which are true. So really, isn't it time for you to admit you were wrong and move on?

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