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Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the corporations-excel-at-killing-thiving-communities dept.

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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  1. Root is like crack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Root is like crack. Don't smoke it. I did once and got hooked. I ran Mac OS Updates as root. ****, I even had sex with my girlfriend as root. Man, that caused some permissions problems. When I started the road to recovery (logging in as Zacks) my girlfriend was all like: "**** no! You can't get any cause you don't own me an I don't go groups. You don't have the power to read, write OR execute so get out of my FACE" So I was all HELL NO bitch. And she wuz like you do not have root (superuser) privlages so get out of my TruBlueEnvironment! So then I went chown and chmodded her ass to me. Dat be-otch be up in my hizzouse. What what. Holla!

    1. Re:Root is like crack by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Been done.

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  2. Re:Dead?? by Fred_A · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OpenSolaris will not be completely dead.

    It depends whether the new Sun management is willing to collaborate...

    Oracle : Bring out your dead !
    Sun : I've got one. nine pence.
    Solaris : I'm not dead!
    Oracle : What ?
    Sun : Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
    Solaris : I'm not dead!
    Oracle : Here -- he says he's not dead!
    Sun : Yes, he is.
    Solaris : I'm getting better!
    Sun : No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
    [ ... ]

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