The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed

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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[dgatwood]

No, I meant commercial. A commercial OS, at least by my definition, is an OS principally developed and backed by a company. Although Linux distributions are assembled by companies, the vast majority of the development work is done by third parties, and is not done principally for commercial gain, so Linux distros are generally not what I would call commercial OSes.

Further, I did not mean proprietary. Not all commercial OSes are proprietary. Some examples of nonproprietary commercial OSes are OpenSolaris (defunct) and Darwin OS (also defunct). Admittedly, most nonproprietary commercial OSes don't stick around very long, but they do exist....