After watching the videos about the Sun / Oracle merger, I would be interested to hear people's views on the furture of Solaris and Open Solaris.
I am concerned that Oracle may turn Solaris into a closed 'appliance' Operating system which will eventually lead to Solaris disappearing from the general purpose Unix OS landscape. I am also having really grave concerns for the future of OpenSolaris. There was no mention anywhere about Oracle's investment in OpenSolaris as a forefront for pushing development into the primary Solaris OS. Is OpenSolaris going to be killed off and will Solaris also be killed as a general purpose OS in the years to come.. Has anyone had any official statement from Oracle on what it will do with OpenSolaris?? I really hate to say this but should I begin focusing at Linux as the general purpose OS of the future from a career perspective. I really hope not! Cheers Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20100129/659e63b6/attachment.html>
