24 Oct
2018
24 Oct
'18
3:12 a.m.
On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:47 AM, Liam Proven <lproven
at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 20:01, Alan Perry via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Well, those were pretty much all written immediately after Oracle let go of most of the
Solaris and SPARC orgs. It was brutal and I can imagine how it looked from the outside.
But most isn?t all and it is more that a year later and we are still putting out Solaris
releases.
alan
Excuse me, but I work for Oracle on Solaris
(primarily on USB code) and
it is not EOL. Oracle just released Solaris 11.4 and the next release is
being worked on.
Oh! Well, I'm very glad to hear it.
But the news has not spread -- cf.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of…
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3160176/hardware/game-over-for-solaris…
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3222707/data-center/the-sun-sets-on-so…
https://siliconangle.com/2017/09/05/oracle-layoffs-signal-end-life-sparc-so…
https://www.itprotoday.com/software-development/new-oracle-layoffs-probably…
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