Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris

CWmike writes to point out that Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is one of many people questioning where Oracle may land once the acquisition of Sun is complete. One concern that I have heard many people express is that there may be a good chance of OpenSolaris getting the axe for not fitting in with the overall corporate vision. "People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle has long used Linux internally both on its servers and on some of its desktops. So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: 'Nothing.' Sun, Oracle and third-party sources are telling me that OpenSolaris developers are afraid that they'll be either moved over to working on Linux or let go once the Sun/Oracle merger is completed."

Re:Already Open

[Bandman]

At the very least, it would diverge far enough from Solaris to be an almost entirely different product.

OpenSolaris....OpenBSD...

Maybe the next version could be called NetSolaris. We could install it on very large toasters.

Re:Makes absolutely no sense

[UID30]

What you talkin 'bout Willis? Oracle's primary development platform has been Linux for years now. I think the vague "runs better" test is pretty much a wash when you compare optimized code builds running on similarly powered hardware.

I think Sun hardware is really more of a vanity thing in business nowdays ... so "company a" can look down their nose at "company b" and say "we dont use Dell servers, we're a Sun house"...

OMG! THANK you for making me post this! I NOW understand the Oracle-Sun merger! They're both "vanity" business models! Its been bothering me since the merger was announced ... but now I see the synergy plain as daylight. Its all about super large corporate businesses and absurdly high maintenance contracts.

Wow. That is some kind of evil genius. I'm going out to buy some Oracle stock.

Re:Already Open

[MadFarmAnimalz]

Or you could just move to FreeBSD.

I would, but it keeps dying. Don't believe me? Ask Netcraft.

Re:Solaris

[Hognoxious]

is regular solaris going to come back to life?

FTFY

Re:Already Open

[tenco]

Maybe the next version could be called NetSolaris. We could install it on very large toasters.

I always wondered if they [wikipedia.org] would run Linux. But you cleared it all up now. It's just so obvious.