[indiana-discuss] Oracle buy SUN. The end of OpenSolaris?

[James Cornell]

On 4/20/2009 12:41 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> Will it be possible to develop / support OpenSolaris any further now
> SUN's been bought by Oracle? I surely hope this OS will survive. But
> what are the chances?
> 
They didn't kill Sleepycat's software even though it's not copyleft, so
it could continue, though the innovation drive is to be less as a
result.  I can see them supporting it for 2 years or more, depending on
how current Sun CEO's and those to manage (Open)Solaris in the future
can prove its important to mainline Solaris and PR.  Java won't go
anywhere, but I expect SPARC to get canned since Oracle has no hardware
experience.  It wouldn't surprise me if Oracle cut 16,000 of Sun's
remaining employees loose YTD.

- James