Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 3, 2010 @05:00AM from the dropped-off-the-moving-truck dept.

sproketboy writes "Project Darkstar, an open source software platform from Sun labs that simplifies the development of horizontally scalable servers for online games, is being discontinued as of the Oracle acquisition. This project, mentioned a couple of years back on Slashdot, was a unique concept for building an application server specific to on-line gaming. Sadly they were so close at version 0.9.11 (which is still very stable). Hopefully the open source community can get involved and help continue work on this project."

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Save this write as a template by realinvalidname · 2010-02-03 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny

blurb = "The Sun %s project, which we <a href=\"%s\">mentioned a few years ago</a> on Slashdot, is being <a href=\"%s\">shut down</a> in the wake of the Oracle acquisition.
That should save the editors a little time over the next few weeks as they iterate over every minimally-viable, staff-of-three Sun mini-project that has been terminated by Oracle.