Rumor: Solaris being discontinued?
According to this post at thelayoff.com, Solaris and any future SPARC hardware is being cancelled / discontinued.
Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF’d in short term
All hands meetings being cancelled on orders from legal to prevent news from spreading.
Hardware teams being told to cease development.
There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4.
Orders coming straight from Larry.
No info on timing yet.
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Regarding the news itself, Oracle bought Sun just to kill MySQL (and more specifically, the programmer support it received from Sun). Going with the vertical integration /complete systems idea was a secondary objective (if not a pure distraction. Because MySQL was encroaching into the low-end tiers of Oracle’s customer base.
Sure, the community will fork and fork, but the paid Sun programmers that were working on MySQL are not coming back.