Well, they are probably reacting to what their customers want which, in my experience working at a fairly typical customer up to a couple of years ago, is indeed Linux. That's kind of sad, but Linux, much though I'd like to hate it, is unfortunately both a significantly more pleasant experience as a user & administrator, and a lot easier to hire people for. It's 20 years too late for Solaris to have a future. > On 19 Jan 2017, at 14:40, Arthur Krewat wrote: > > Let's hope they do the right thing and release Solaris into the wild again. ZFS in particular. > > Personally, I think they are making a huge mistake. What are they going to do, move to Linux? Oh, right... the "cloud" will be Linux. > > Blech. > >> On 1/19/2017 3:49 AM, Wesley Parish wrote: >> 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 >> >> >