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 > >