Microsoft-Paul Allen

[Alan Perry]

> 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:
> 
>> 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-solaris/
> 
> https://www.networkworld.com/article/3160176/hardware/game-over-for-solaris-and-sparc.html
> 
> https://www.networkworld.com/article/3222707/data-center/the-sun-sets-on-solaris-and-sparc.html
> 
> https://siliconangle.com/2017/09/05/oracle-layoffs-signal-end-life-sparc-solaris-products/
> 
> https://www.itprotoday.com/software-development/new-oracle-layoffs-probably-signal-end-line-solaris

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 



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