Solaris dublin got canned today. 16 got let go. Any other places??
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I think those people were given their notice in March, but because other countries have better labor laws their employment didn't end until this week.
Not true.
Free OS on commodity CPU is a hard bargain to beat.
Solaris was both before Oracle screwed everything up. Solaris was in bad shape for sure, but making closed source and disinvesting in x86 totally k--led it.
"Yet another loser technology Oracle got from Sun. What a waste of 7 Billion."
mmmhhhh... interesting. let's do some math. Sun at the acquisition had some 5B in cash and equity. So actually Oracle spent just slightly more than 2B.
SPARC at the acquisition was doing some 5B (i.e. without considering any other technology in Sun portfolio, and without considering the potential business of what Oracle immediately k--led like the Sun Cloud). I think LE has done his math very well at the time.
The only technology that has demonstrated to be a loser are the brain cells in top management skulls, that instead of putting in place a well coordinated integration and collaboration have actually decied for the usual internal competition model. What a waste of 10Y and a possibly disruptive integrated proposition.
Solaris had its day, but it was eclipsed by Linux years ago. Solaris on SPARC was rock solid. Keyword: was.
Free OS on commodity CPU is a hard bargain to beat. Anyone still clinging to either Solaris or SPARC are deluding themselves.
Yet another loser technology Oracle got from Sun. What a waste of 7 Billion.
Darn. The Irish economy is doing ok so hopefully the victims can find other work in that big industrial export complex where Oracle was located. Several ex-Solaris people are already at Workday there. ST ends up with Solaris only because his legacy product depends on it. How sad to be on the forced receiving side for a once proud and thriving operating environment. All of this contradicts the rosy Renato Ribeiro blog post from just last week where he touted the flowing Solaris "continuous delivery release process". And of course, Fujitsu SPARC product management cringes once again as another nail is put in the coffin for the OS that is required on their servers.
How many Solaris engineers would you estimate are still working at O?
One amazing operating system kissing the dust...
Plan is Solaris 11.4 is the end of the road, no more updates, even the 60% ready 11.5 has been "undefinitely delayed", and it will not be released ths year as the roadmap presented several times by BN and his team in the past months declared.
Solaris users will get only very few security updates in the future, and only because of existing support contracts.
Given the plan, only a drastically reduced Solaris skeleton team will remain under ST, with a massive reduction or replacement.