On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 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
Sure, Sun's top-management lets everything down while agreeing to any takeover. They should have continued in trying to rescue Sun and to SOMEHOW keep it independent. I'm not a Sun employee. But I can imagine how disappointed they - we - all must be! However, read Ben Rookwood's comment to above article: http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1047 ... Read More OpenSolaris will NEVER DIE OUT. Nor will MySQL or VirtualBox or Java! We will just not let this happen!!! Period. I am very confident about this. And this only apllies to the worst case of cases, if Oracle really dares to lay-off Sun's best engineers. While they should really think about it twice, before attempting to do so. It would be a clear and obvious breach of trust / their word. And the UNIX community will make Hamburgers out of them! So, let's hope the best. Мартин _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
