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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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    2. Re:And... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      About FreeBSD (not ZFS) I can only offer my own spectacular experiences to counter yours. Admittedly, this morning I'm moving a server back to 7.3 because the tape drive locks the machine under 8.1. Personally, I think the glitches happen because the FreeBSD team sometimes makes the horrific mistake of following Linux. For example, the wretched HAL which, while once touted as the greatest thing ever, is now, a few years later, possibly headed for abandonment by Ubuntu, the only Linux people seem to listen to or care about. The linux horizon of interest is about half a year. It's like it has ADD.

  2. Re:This was so predicable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    2) Java is what Oracle really wanted in Sun acquisition (see announcement today of lawsuit against Google re Android Java use) and Solaris is useful only insofar as it is part of the value prop for selling Sun, now Oracle, hardware. Solaris will only be pushed by Oracle on non-Oracle hardware if they can make a good license business out of it.

    Are we just reading the PARTS of the unofficial 'leaked memo' that we like/dislike? Really?

    1) Oracle will cripple, keep on life support or close-source all open source projects. Larry believes anything users want to use is worth making them pay for. Any open source projects that survive will be strategically useful (like letting a 'free' MySQL contaminate Microsoft's low-midrange database business revenue)

    QQ

    but since it can't be licensed (for money) and there's no really support/services business

    You lie.