The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed 342
ywlke writes "A few hours ago, an internal Oracle memo was leaked to the osol-discuss mailing list at opensolaris.org. It details Oracle's plans for Solaris and OpenSolaris; namely that OpenSolaris, the distribution, is dead. Solaris Express has come back from the grave, and source code will still be CDDL, but won't be released to the public until some time after it is incorporated into a binary release. What happens to the community now is anybody's guess."
The full text of the memo is available on the mailing list, as well as apparent confirmation from an Oracle employee. That said, no official announcement has yet been made.
The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed (Score:4, Funny)
Never mind.
Oh Oracle (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So much for that (Score:5, Funny)
see, the Onion could write an article: "OpenSolaris Governance Board Ultimatum Swiftly Moves Oracle To Action!"
Wait! (Score:3, Funny)
He's Dead, Jim (Score:2, Funny)
He didn't have a chance. The Oracle Beast disrupted him down to the cellular level.
Re:Oh Oracle (Score:5, Funny)
Just to piss off the Syfy channel, they'll rename it Mi-SQL.
Re:Why would I even consider using OpenSolaris? (Score:3, Funny)
I can't wait until they get around to killing MySQL.
Everyone is using Postgre SQL anyway.
Re:And... (Score:3, Funny)
FreeBSD, OTOH, is plenty competitive with Linux, and has good ZFS support.
Not to mention that, while ZFS may not become a universal file system, it could well dominate in NAS appliances, and other proprietary closed-box products running OpenSolaris.
in the OpenSolaris Forum (Score:2, Funny)
Open Source Curious Newbie: "I wish to make a complaint"
OpenSolaris Developer/Community Fanboi in the Forum: "Sorry, we're closing for lunch"
Newbie: "Never mind that, my man. I wish to complain about this OpenSolaris Distro, what I downloaded not half an hour ago from this very user's group website."
Fanboi : Oh yes, the, ah, the 2009.06... What's, ah... W-what's wrong with it?
Newbie: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my man. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Fanboi: "No, no, it's ah... it's in code freeze"
Newbie : Look, matey, I know a dead OS distro when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Fanboi : No no, it-it's not dead, it's frozen!
Newb : Frozen?
Fanboi : Y-yeah, 'in freeze' Remarkable OS, the 2009.06, isn't it, eh? Beautiful features for the future!
Newb : The future features don't enter into it. It's stone dead!
Fanboi : Nononono, no, no! it's source tree commit is just turned off temporarily!
Re:I'm glad they're so good at math! (Score:5, Funny)
And I'm point out that you're interpreting the marketing statement as someone versed and competent at arithmetic. I'm pointing out that it's marketing math, and therefore needs to be boiled down to 2nd-grade-level.
I stand by my interpretation: 100% (current Oracle RDBMS customers) - 40% (Oracle+Solaris customers) = 60%.
Remember: marketing math. Mathematics, Jim, but not as we know it.
Re:And... (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh, the databass, such a noble fish.
Re:Oracle seems real friendly with Open Source (Score:4, Funny)
Alas, poor Solaris... (Score:3, Funny)
Alas, poor Solaris!
I knew it, McNealy, an o/s of infinite capability, of most excellent fancy.
It hath bore my applications on its back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is!
My gorge rises at it.
Re:The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And... (Score:5, Funny)
Except that *all* these forks have a consistent problem: there is no commercial license available. [...] The GPL is a bit "too free" (or too restrictive, depending on your definition of free) to be palatable.
Is that you, Monty?
The fact that MySQL sucks as bad as it does...
Ok, I guess not :)