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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. And... by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...was anything of value lost?

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    1. Re:And... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Troll

      Postgres is not perfect and is a pain with syntax compared to MySQL. The auto-vacuum can slow it down and the replication is behind.

      I am thinking of creating a website and I like PostreSQL for its features and statistical support. I am also open to closed source alternatives and MS SQL Server has nice anayltical services and data-mining and so does DB2.

      I am not a database administrator or an expert. However, I do want a website with a SQL back-end and need something now with ACID with proper linking with foreign keys. MySQL is catching up but PostgreSQL is already there but a pain to learn.

      MySQL supports multiple users well which is why its included with ISPs and easier to learn.

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