I find this whole thing, as in Oracle itself I guess, hard to understand. In their presentations at Hot Chips for the past couple of years they've repeatedly h

I find this whole thing, as in Oracle itself I guess, hard to understand. In their presentations at Hot Chips for the past couple of years they've repeatedly highlighted hardware features which seemed to be only accessible using next gen Oracle software running on an upcoming version of Oracle's proprietary Solaris. So if they're giving up on Solaris 12 development how are their customers going to fully leverage this new hardware they're buying from Oracle? If they're unable to use it, why buy/lease hardware from Oracle at significant premium when you can just use commodity x86 compute... and if you're just using commodity x86 compute why step up for the licensing costs of Oracle software if there is anything else on earth which might suffice?