“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 SkyMarshal on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:57PM (#15165392)

Sun really needed to FOSS license Solaris before Linux hit critical mass. That would have been amazing. Linux is pretty good for what it is, but imagine if it had been Solaris that won instead of Linux, and thus running on most of the servers of the world and potentially iOS and Android as well. It might have even made some desktop inroads, given it would have launched out of the FOSS gate with a more developed desktop than Linux at the time. Such a huge missed opportunity.

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by Tloewald on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:17PM (#15169163)

I doubt Apple or NeXT would have ported their platform to Solaris (from BSD/Mach). it seems to me that BSD would have been Linux if Linux hadn't happened.

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by madkangas on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:34PM (#15170999)

Actually, NeXT did just that. OPENSTEP ran on Mach, Solaris, HPUX, and (amazingly) Windows NT. It didn't make a difference for NeXT's market share.

NeXT was acquired by Apple. 6 months later... Jobs was in charge, and history unfolded.

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by Tloewald on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:34PM (#15207792)

Oh of course you're right (/facepalm).

But does/did Solaris have anything worthwhile to offer over BSD/Mach.

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