Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris

CWmike writes to point out that Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is one of many people questioning where Oracle may land once the acquisition of Sun is complete. One concern that I have heard many people express is that there may be a good chance of OpenSolaris getting the axe for not fitting in with the overall corporate vision. "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."

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GPL ZFS

[TyFoN]

Maybe we finally will see GPLd ZFS now even though btrfs is superior in design. I wouldn't really trust ZFS to hold my data given all the ignored bug reports about data corruption.

Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

The 104 users?

Re:Already Open

[BitZtream]

Yes, but thanks the Linux's retarded licensing, ZFS sucks ass on Linux.