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Even if Oracle plans to reduce the scope of Solaris 12 or moving to a rolling release like Windows 10, they could have avoided this scrutiny by keeping the Sola
by cpeterso 10y ago
Even if Oracle plans to reduce the scope of Solaris 12 or moving to a rolling release like Windows 10, they could have avoided this scrutiny by keeping the Solaris 12 name instead of inventing Solaris "11.next". Perhaps they thought existing Solaris 11.x customers would be more likely to upgrade to 11.next than 12.
- wang_li 10y agoIt's reasonably safe to assume that 'next' is a placeholder for .4, .5, .6 and so on. This seems to me more like a project management issue than a technical issue. I.e. the scope of Solaris 12 was too ambitious and individual teams were finishing their work on different schedules. Rather than have everything sit idle, they are releasing it piecemeal under the Solaris 11.x umbrella. To the extent that there are commercial ISVs supporting Solaris it also makes their jobs a little easier since they can deal with change in smaller increments.