Oracle Finally Confirms It's Canning Solaris 12

[ldo17]

I think that the world would be better without this corporate hell OS, HP UX is dying too, i hope that AIX would die too.

Basically, everything that gets to call itself “Unix” deserves to die.

[starshipeleven]

Basically, everything that gets to call itself “Unix” deserves to die.

a tl;dr
And Linux itself has become so dominant, that if anybody were to try to offer a “Unix” system nowadays, I would want to ask them:
Is your “Unix” Linux-compatible?

This is also very meme.

[Michael_S]

Oracle has killed pretty much everything they acquired from Sun. MySQL, Solaris, Netbeans, OpenOffice. And Java isn't in great shape these days either. Pathetic. I wish IBM would have bought Sun.

Java the language is in Android, so it's not going anywhere. And the Java Virtual Machine as a platform for other projects is healthy too.

But the language evolution may be dying. I doubt Oracle will keep investing in java if they can't see a direct path to making billions as a result.

[johnc]

So there's no Solaris 12 but there's Solaris.next? wtf?

[jabl]

So there's no Solaris 12 but there's Solaris.next? wtf?

If you read the Ars article phoronix links to, you'll see it's actually "Solaris 11.next". Presumably, some minor updates to the existing Solaris 11.

[jacob]

So presumably OEL will now be Oracle's primary OS. I wonder whether we should be concerned for Linux?

[ldo17]

Java the language is in Android, so it's not going anywhere.

The one remaining successful use of Java, and Oracle would like to kill it.

[numasan]

So presumably OEL will now be Oracle's primary OS. I wonder whether we should be concerned for Linux?

OEL is 99% RHEL, so no.

[maveric7911]

You could probably add another .9% to that!

[Delgarde]

But the language evolution may be dying. I doubt Oracle will keep investing in java if they can't see a direct path to making billions as a result.

Actually, the language itself has done fairly well under Oracle... Java 7 and 8 both included some very useful improvements, and while Java 9 has been much delayed, that's mostly because of the difficulty of delivering on some of the big enhancements it provides.

As to where the money is - I don't think they make much off Java itself... maybe something off support contracts, but nothing of significance. But the Java ecosystem is the key to the enterprise... the language, the JavaEE spec, etc. And that's where the money is coming from - enterprise apps built on a Java stack are probably running on Weblogic and talking to an Oracle database.