Oracle puts OpenSolaris to rest

By Luke Hopwell, ZDNet Australia, 16 August, 2010 15:55

NEWS

Software giant Oracle has closed the book on open distributions of the enterprise operating system OpenSolaris, according to a leaked memo.

In an internal communication to Solaris engineers published on the blog of one of the recipients, senior Oracle executives Mike Shapiro, Bill Nesheim and Chris Armes described "key decisions" surrounding the future of Solaris.

Those key decisions result in open-source developers no longer receiving daily access to builds of Solaris binaries after version 2010.05.

Instead, Oracle plans to distribute an open-source version of the platform after a full commercial release.

For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Oracle puts OpenSolaris to rest on ZDNet Australia.

Talkback

How surprising is that? Oracle sees potential cash walking off its website. Decides open source not as important as Larry's seventh yacht. Halts flow of cash.

manek 16 August, 2010 16:53

Mike Shapiro, Bill Nesheim and Chris Armes the three stooges, triple slap needed here from the open source community.

CA 17 August, 2010 00:59

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