news as requested;)
Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release
excerpt:
quotes from presentation:
We have a large new version of Solaris coming out in 2011 called Solaris 11,"
John Fowler, Oracle's executive vice president of systems, told InternetNews.com
Fowler said that quite a bit of the technology from openSolaris will end up in
the new Solaris 11 release. He added there will also be new technologies that
have been funded by Oracle that will debut in Solaris 11
Fowler said. "Solaris 11 will be a superset of what is in openSolaris."
"We've been a little quiet on the open source front," Fowler said. "It's not that
we're not investing in Solaris, we're just investing to make sure that we have all the major
components for the new release."
end quotes
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3897706/Oracle-Details-Upcoming-Solaris-11-Release.htm
replay of pensentation will be on demand soon
http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=119649&src=7011191&src=7011191&Act=4
Forgive me if I don't get excited. But thats for Solaris 11, for all we
know, based on Larrys expectations, it will probably be tuned for
Database and Servers. Oracle may well remove most desktop and laptop
functionality, after all, it's not required and makes support much harder.
Also, if I read in between the lines for this statement "Solaris 11 will
be a superset of what is in Opensolaris", it say's to me, Oracle is not
open with Opensolaris any more. There will likely be proprietary
extensions added not in Opensolaris. Basically I won't believe my
statement when I see Oracle fork the Opensolaris Development line to
debug for Solaris 11.
But all the above is OK, after all Oracle purchased Sun and they can do
what they like.
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