From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:49:47 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: [TUHS] Oracle euthanizes Solaris 12, expunging it from roadmap In-Reply-To: <1484812418.3800555.852554160.1638329B@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1484812418.3800555.852554160.1638329B@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1484815787.58807daba38e0@www.paradise.net.nz> I suppose that set of rumours will lead to people shifting to the FOSS versions of Solaris and SPARC. Wesley Parish Quoting Kay Parker : > guess it is the beginning of the end of Solaris and the Sparc CPU: > 'Rumors have been circulating since late last year that Oracle was > planning to kill development of the Solaris operating system, with > major > layoffs coming to the operating system's development team. Others > speculated that future versions of the Unix platform Oracle acquired > with Sun Microsystems would be designed for the cloud and built for the > Intel platform only and that the SPARC processor line would meet its > demise. The good news, based on a recently released Oracle roadmap for > the SPARC platform, is that both Solaris and SPARC appear to have a > future. > > The bad news is that the next major version of Solaris—Solaris 12— > has > apparently been canceled, as it has disappeared from the roadmap. > Instead, it's been replaced with "Solaris 11.next"—and that version > is > apparently the only update planned for the operating system through > 2021. > > With its on-premises software and hardware sales in decline, Oracle has > been undergoing a major reorganization over the past two years as it > attempts to pivot toward the cloud. Those changes led to a major speed > bump in the development cycle for Java Enterprise Edition, a slowdown > significant enough that it spurred something of a Java community > revolt. > Oracle later announced a new roadmap for Java EE that recalibrated > expectations, focusing on cloud services features for the next version > of the software platform. ' > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/oracle-sort-of-confirms-demise-of-solaris-12-effort/ > > -- > Kay Parker > kayparker at mailite.com > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be > > "I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor, Method for Guitar "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn