“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by emmelaich on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:15PM (#15164259)

What accelerated it even further was when Linux went 64 bit and hardware improved to the point where it was a suitable replacement for big iron Solaris (the SunFire 6900 for example). That was around 2005 from memory.

And the 6900's features with regard to HA in the field fell well short of advertised.

Now you can get a Linux box with 4Tb of RAM so no-one should buy Solaris over Linux.

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by rbanffy on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:32AM (#15167157)

Now you can get a 24TB, 192-core beast that fits within 7U rack. That same chassis will probably go way beyond that with newer Scalable Xeons.

And you could cram even more x86 cores with up to five Xeon Phi coprocessor cards, while Intel's supplies last.

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...

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