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Re:Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in... by derefr on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:57PM (#13624440)
That explains a lot about their recent behavior, e.g. dropping Solaris. If everyone is consuming their software over a network, it doesn't matter precisely what it's running on any more (so even if Oracle DBs could scale better on Solaris than on Linux or a BSD, a 1.3x SaaS shared-cluster size costs less than an OS development team.)
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Re:Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in... by binarycrusader on Saturday February 11, 2017 @03:21PM (#13624570)
They're not dropping Solaris. They're instead changing the release model:

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/oracle_solaris_moving...

Personally, I'd say this is similar to Microsoft's decisions around Windows 10.

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Re:Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in... by jimnotgym on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:37PM (#13625550)
And that is what they call spin. Didn't they fire the people who write it?
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Re:Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in... by binarycrusader on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:40PM (#13625839)
No, they did not. How do I know? Because I'm still working on Solaris almost nine years later along with many others. Same manager, same projects.

Staffing levels in some areas was changed as was publicly announced.

See also http://www.esteem.co.uk/news-events/oracle-solaris-whats-goi...

Disclaimer: these are my opinions and not those of my employer.

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Re:Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in... by jimnotgym on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:02PM (#13625932)
Sorry, it was reported that the job losses at Oracle were from the Solaris team. I read the memo from Oracle on Solaris 12 and was (and am) completely unconvinced by it, but maybe I am just cynical. I am still moving away from it as fast as I can convince the board to back me. Good luck on the Solaris team, some good things could come out of it (with some open source licensing). Oracle could do themselves some serious reputational favours by staying out of court.
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