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The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed

Posted by Soulskill on from the long-live-illumos dept.

ywlke writes "A few hours ago, an internal Oracle memo was leaked to the osol-discuss mailing list at opensolaris.org. It details Oracle's plans for Solaris and OpenSolaris; namely that OpenSolaris, the distribution, is dead. Solaris Express has come back from the grave, and source code will still be CDDL, but won't be released to the public until some time after it is incorporated into a binary release. What happens to the community now is anybody's guess." The full text of the memo is available on the mailing list, as well as apparent confirmation from an Oracle employee. That said, no official announcement has yet been made.

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  1. The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed by AnonymousClown · · Score: 4, Funny
    I thought it was a new O'Reily title and this was a book review. Doesn't that sound like a title of a book? The Animal on the cover would be some old Gypsy looking into a crystal ball.

    Never mind.

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    1. Re:The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

      Gypsy Moth

  2. Oh Oracle by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh Oracle, what do you have up your sleeve next? Maybe you'll want to change the spelling of "MySQL" to "MY! SQL"?

    1. Re:Oh Oracle by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just to piss off the Syfy channel, they'll rename it Mi-SQL.

  3. Re:So much for that by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Funny

    see, the Onion could write an article: "OpenSolaris Governance Board Ultimatum Swiftly Moves Oracle To Action!"

  4. Re:I'm glad they're so good at math! by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I'm point out that you're interpreting the marketing statement as someone versed and competent at arithmetic. I'm pointing out that it's marketing math, and therefore needs to be boiled down to 2nd-grade-level.

    I stand by my interpretation: 100% (current Oracle RDBMS customers) - 40% (Oracle+Solaris customers) = 60%.

    Remember: marketing math. Mathematics, Jim, but not as we know it.

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  5. Re:And... by Improv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahh, the databass, such a noble fish.

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  6. Re:Oracle seems real friendly with Open Source by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes. Everyone else thinks the correct time was several years ago.

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  7. Alas, poor Solaris... by dogsbreath · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alas, poor Solaris!
    I knew it, McNealy, an o/s of infinite capability, of most excellent fancy.
    It hath bore my applications on its back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is!

    My gorge rises at it.

  8. Re:And... by Raenex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except that *all* these forks have a consistent problem: there is no commercial license available. [...] The GPL is a bit "too free" (or too restrictive, depending on your definition of free) to be palatable.

    Is that you, Monty?

    The fact that MySQL sucks as bad as it does...

    Ok, I guess not :)