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 Unbrea
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 wrote:
> Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?
>
> asks Steven J Vaughan Nichols in ComputerWorld.
from my point of view, they are not going to kill solaris neither
opensolaris, but get all the nice functionalities to build a real OS, and
not just copy RHEL, that for sure, they know what people are talking about
this copy, and for sure they won't be stand doing nothing.
For me the chances to kee
Oh look, another "tech journalist" with zero facts who instead dreams up a
sensationalist story to draw hits to his site because he's lonely and CW need
the advertising dollars.
Yawn.
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Sun / Oracle should just do the exact same thing that Red Hat does with Linux.
Let's see here. Red Hat supports two distributions that are based on the same
code:
Fedora is a rapidly changing community based distribution that is provided free
of charge and incorporates the newest bits for testi
Also, if you read what Larry Ellison says here:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9131829/Oracle_s_Sun_buy_Ellison_praises_Solaris_thumbs_nose_at_IBM
he says the following:
"The Solaris operating system is by far the best Unix technology available in
the market,"
Now, as far as I know, a
Here's another article that I think hints at why Larry wanted to buy Sun:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10173701-16.html
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If you read down a little bit in the article, you'll see a part where it says:
"Oracle also reserves the right to stop supporting its Linux customers at any
time (PDF):
It may become necessary as a part of Oracle's support life cycle to desupport
certain Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM program r
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Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? Nope.
If Oracle means to "kill" OpenSolaris, what could they actually do? They could
fire all the Solaris people and stop all corporate funding, sure but are they
going to do that, no.
The dude who wrote that article clearly is a big IBM fan an
Really I don't think there are many "attacks" on Solaris anyway, just a few
vocal drongo's who think people wish to hear their opinions. On the whole I
hear positive things especially since Solaris 10...
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:54 PM, david wrote:
> Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Amitava Dutta 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 hous
laris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:54:03 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?
Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? Nope.
If Oracle means to "kill" OpenSolaris, what could they actually do? They could
fire all the
Also, Ellisson said something about Oracle having more Solaris installations
than Linux installations.
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14, 2009 9:23:32 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?
Also, Ellisson said something about Oracle having more Solaris installations
than Linux installations.
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Anon Y Mous wrote:
> Sun / Oracle should just do the exact same thing that Red Hat does with Linux.
>
> Let's see here. Red Hat supports two distributions that are based on the same
> code:
>
> Fedora is a rapidly changing community based distribution that is provided
> free of charge and incor
> (Though unlike the other part of your suggestion,
> we're not going to
> maintain a separate install & packaging system for
> Solaris, but will
> replace Solaris Express with the OpenSolaris
> installer & packaging.)
That's lovely; you (plural) will phase out a stable packaging subsystem in
fa
On 17/07/2009, at 12:05 PM, UNIX admin wrote:
(Though unlike the other part of your suggestion,
we're not going to
maintain a separate install & packaging system for
Solaris, but will
replace Solaris Express with the OpenSolaris
installer & packaging.)
That's lovely; you (plural) will phase o
UNIX admin wrote:
> I'd just like someone to tell me just how I'm supposed to remove my Oracle
> database with an IPS package. And if anyone writes "SMF", then I'd like to
> know just how exactly will I run an SMF method to remove a database, when IPS
> doesn't allow scripting.
By using the IPS
This article (from the same guy who wrote the glowing pro-Sun Rock Processor
Transactional Memory article I posted in another discuss thread) is one of the
best antidotes I have yet read to Steven J Vaughan Nichols's retarded
anti-Solaris Computer World article. Instead of countering Vaughn's in
Ted Dziuba (the author with the potty mouth in the above article) used to work
as a programmer / engineer / mathematician for Google a few years back, just in
case some of you were wondering what rock this guy has been hiding under for
the last few years or so. Now I guess he writes columns for
OReilly Media just did this parody article making fun of SJV Nichols's Computer
World article:
Is Oracle getting ready to kill Unbreakable Linux?
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/07/is-oracle-getting-ready-to-kil.html
My guess is neither article is really right. Unbreakable Linux can't be
Although we don't use it in any of the data centers that I've worked at (we
either pay the exhorbitant, over-priced Red Hat support fees or use CentOS free
of charge), I suspect that Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Linux is probably
doing a lot better than people around here give it credit for d
Has anybody heard of an old project that Oracle and Sun worked together on that
was called "Raw Iron":
http://news.cnet.com/Oracles-Raw-Iron-plan-not-fully-forged/2100-1001_3-219129.html
I wonder if we're going to get a similar Oracle-Solaris powered, pre-tuned and
pre-configured server applian
I am sure they will do such things...much like the existing appliance they
have done with HP but this time a totally in-house affair!
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Anon Y Mous wrote:
> Has anybody heard of an old project that Oracle and Sun worked together on
> that was called "Raw Iron":
>
>
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