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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by tannhaeuser on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:41AM (#15161990)
That would have been terrible (and pointless for RedHat anyway). RedHat already owns the entire enterprise Linux market.
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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by noir_lord on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:51AM (#15162053)
I dont' see why, they'd have been able to integrate the various buts of Solaris that where ahead of the Linux curve and since RH has been good about open sourcing stuff the rest of the ecosystem would have benefited.
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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by rbanffy on Sunday September 03, 2017 @05:40PM (#15164083)
Considering the differences under the hood, that wouldn't be easy.
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