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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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