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Another Operating system quietly dies - Solaris.

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Oracle has removed Solaris 12 from its Solaris Roadmap - http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc/oracle-sparc/sparc-roadmap-slide-2076743.pdf

Oracle releases 1800 personnel mostly from its hardware SPARC division - http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-lays-off-more-than-1000-employees/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/oracle-sort-of-confirms-demise-of-solaris-12-effort/ 

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What is Solaris?

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2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

What is Solaris?

A dead operating system that should stay dead.

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7 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

it's oracle's server OS. oracle are the 'patent troll fuckheads' of the PC industry. they buy technology and kill it. 

The issue with Oracle is that they only care about short term profit and ignore the long term.

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4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

The issue with Oracle is that they only care about short term profit and ignore the long term.

true. hence my 'kill it' comment. good fucking riddance, let's let oracle die

idk

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13 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

A dead operating system that should stay dead.

I really thought AIX would die second (HP-UX was first of the 'big-three').   Seems i was wrong - AIX is the last in the class ... 

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Thank god. The only good thing Oracle has introduced into this world is fucking VirtualBox.

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7 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Thank god. The only good thing Oracle has introduced into this world is fucking VirtualBox.

And the other good thing they had....was OpenOffice. Which had the best people leave and create LibreOffice.

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1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

And the other good thing they had....was OpenOffice. Which had the best people leave and create LibreOffice.

imo I'd rather just get office cheap from bizspark or something instead of using openoffice

it feels so bloated and ew

 

then again, I wrote a 750 word essay in Notepad++ so what am I talking about

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Oh wow didn't think Solaris would actually die though, Oracle normally doesn't care and just does whatever they want. That and there oh so friendly licensing audits.

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Solaris isn't dying, sensationalist title, and misleading post. What's actually happening:

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In a new post, the company says “Oracle Solaris is moving to a continuous delivery model using more frequent updates to deliver the latest features faster, while fully preserving customer and ISV qualification investment in the vast array of ISV applications available on Oracle Solaris 11 today.”

“New features and functionality will be delivered in Oracle Solaris through dot releases instead of more disruptive major releases, consistent with trends seen throughout the industry. This addresses customer requirements for an agile and smooth transition path between versions, while providing ongoing innovation with assured investment protection. By moving to a continuous delivery model based on Oracle Solaris 11, customers will have a seamless update experience to better fit their move to agile deployment models.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/24/solaris_continuous_delivery_plan/

 

If you look at the roadmap provided in the OP, it clearly shows Solaris 11.next

sparc-solaris-roadmap-jan-17.png

 

They're moving to more incremental and frequent updates and also looking for SaaS/cloud integration. While Solaris 12 may have been canned for now, Solaris isn't dying, Oracle is just moving in a different direction.

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1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Thank god. The only good thing Oracle has introduced into this world is fucking VirtualBox.

and java....

apart from that nothing else....

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1 hour ago, Dabombinable said:

And the other good thing they had....was OpenOffice. Which had the best people leave and create LibreOffice.

I hated OpenOffice. 

 

10 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

and java....

apart from that nothing else....

Oh yes, because Java is sooooooooooooooooo great. :dry:

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2 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

and java

Java REALLY needs to go away. It's a lot like cars, most of us need one or will use one but cars are constantly killing us. Both can easily be fixed but there is a lot of legacy tie-ins and push back on change.

 

Or maybe Java is like Skynet. It's everywhere and controls tons of things, if it turned evil we would be screwed.

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11 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

and java....

apart from that nothing else....

No. Java is just absolute crap.

There's no other way for me to phrase it.

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7 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Oh yes, because Java is sooooooooooooooooo great. :dry:

 

6 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

No. Java is just absolute crap.

There's no other way for me to phrase it.

 

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I came here to pay respects and saw everyone loving this... So confused right now :/:( 

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I think they're going to focus on the cloud service stuff I know they're pushing their customers to upgrade their ERPs to cloud based stuff. Unfortunately for them it doesn't seems to be any more responsive or less prone to slowdowns.

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1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Oh yes, because Java is sooooooooooooooooo great. :dry:

java isn't the best but it's better than nothing!

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2 hours ago, Rohime said:

I really thought AIX would die second (HP-UX was first of the 'big-three').   Seems i was wrong - AIX is the last in the class ... 

That's because IBM actually gives a damn about keeping it up to date with Linux.

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Can Google just buy Oracle, guy the management, and make everything Oracle controls tolerable at least?

 

I just wish Java had proper thread interfaces. The fact Thread.isAlive() returns false if it's just asleep/waiting to finish is ridiculous. The overhead and serialisation caused by Thread.join() is infuriating.

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9 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

java isn't the best but it's better than nothing!

Hah! No...

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2 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Hah! No...

what about android?

it's built on... wait for it..... wait for it.....

JAVA.

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