![]() ![]() Oracle only does enough so that existing users don’t flee en masse. Oracle *is* working on MySQL, just not as much as MariaDB is. Java is slowly being handed over to the community, which is probably a good thing (the community is big enough, including corporate backers, to keep the technology in shape). If Oracle completely killed VirtualBox today, most users would move to something else without too much trouble. Virtualbox is still in good shape (I think ?) but containers, KVM, and Foo-on-Bar technologies have stolen the limelight. Still, nowadays there’s no good reason to keep using Mysql instead of postg^Wmariadb. Mysql/Mariadb is a similar story, although Oracle still does just enough Mysql development to keep current users from looking elsewere. Just a shame that the AOO fork managed to convince some people that it was the original rather than a fork, and that it refuses to acknowledge its own death. actually benefited from being abandoned: the LO fork made improvements at a much faster pace than if they had remained under a corporate umbrella. In buying Sun, they managed to hoover one of their largest database competitors, without it looking like a horribly aggressive move. VirtualBox is also widely used.īut most importantly, don’t overlook MySQL. Java hasn’t gone anywhere, despite various grumblings. The biggest loss was probably OpenOffice – it might have been attractive, but the community moved against them. This is the future we have to look forward to This process continues until there are a couple corporations running the show.Īt least we have antitrust laws that kick in at 50%, but by that point most in the market have already been slaughtered. The industry is consolidating so much that it’s not enough just to keep building good technology, you have to play the offensive and take others out of the game before they take you out. I also find it sad that a company that gave so much to the industry was not able to stay viable. Oracle is f*ing cancer no more no less, capitalism in its most pure state. But We, Sun fans and Solaris users, already knew this since 2009. Regarding Solaris, well, it’s sad, the best enterprise OS ever created death in the hands of the most mediocre IT company in the world. Honestly, I think he was a good guy and you cannot be a good CEO and a good guy at the same time! xD So while we can mourn the loss of the proprietary embodiment of Solaris (and we can certainly lament the coarse way in which its technologists were treated!), we can rejoice in the eternal life of its technologies – in illumos and beyond!Īnd open source Java and open source ZFS and OpenSolaris and OpenOffice and a long list of cool projects and tons of open source friendliness.ĭon’t get me wrong, Schwartz was a terrible CEO from an economic point of view, but for us, the community, he was like Jesus, he really believed in open source and contributed with the cause. But in that shorter life, Solaris achieved the singular: immortality for its revolutionary technologies. And even that may be overstating its longevity: Solaris may not have been truly born until it was made open source, and – certainly to me, anyway – it died the moment it was again made proprietary. Judging merely by its tombstone, the life of Solaris can be viewed as tragic: born out of wedlock between Sun and AT&T and dying at the hands of a remorseless corporate sociopath a quarter century later. It is a cut so deep as to be fatal: the core Solaris engineering organization lost on the order of 90% of its people, including essentially all management. When I first saw this, I had assumed that this was merely a deep cut, but in talking to Solaris engineers still at Oracle, it is clearly much more than that. Just how good were Oracle’s decisions on buying Sun?īryan Cantrill on this news ( this Bryan Cantrill):Īs had been rumored for a while, Oracle effectively killed Solaris on Friday. With the hardware deprecated, my guess is that’s the last of the Sun assets Oracle acquired written off. A classic Oracle “silent EOL”, no matter what they claim. That surely has to mean a maintenance-only future for the product range, especially withSolaris 12 cancelled. The news from the ex-Sun community jungle drums is that theJanuary rumourswere true and Oracle laid off the core talent of the Solaris and SPARC teams on Friday. Remember, back in December 2016, when there were rumours Oracle was killing Solaris? And how a month later, Solaris effectively switched to maintenance mode, and then to a “continuous deliver model”? ![]()
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