Don't feed the trolls! Ben Rockwood has a level headed reply to SJVN's uninformed ranting: http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1047
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Amitava Dutta <amit...@computer.org>wrote: > Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? > > asks Steven J Vaughan Nichols in ComputerWorld. > > People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. > Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand > clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle > has long used Linux internally both on its servers and on some of its > desktops. So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its > newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer > appears to be: "Nothing." > > Sun, Oracle and third-party sources are telling me that OpenSolaris > developers are afraid that they'll be either moved over to working on Linux > or let go once the Sun/Oracle merger is completed. Other Sun open-source > managers have expressed concern that their jobs may disappear once Oracle > has acquired Sun. > > This can't come as much of a surprise. Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief > Corporate Architect, said last year, ""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." > > .... > > http://blogs.computerworld.com/is_oracle_getting_ready_to_kill_opensolaris > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >
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