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Agree. Just a shame that Solaris wasn't Open Sourced sooner, as if it'd grown more traction we'd be in a different world now. I think Linux kind of creeped up
by trollied 7y ago
Agree.
Just a shame that Solaris wasn't Open Sourced sooner, as if it'd grown more traction we'd be in a different world now.
I think Linux kind of creeped up on them, and in the meantime Oracle got its grubby its on Sun, then embraced Linux itself.
Zones are /amazing/.
- jordanbeiber 7y agoYeah, but it has taken like... forever, in a sense. It was in many ways quite the head start they had. DTrace for example, that stuff is proper. Great to see whats happening with BPF on Linux these days. I guess it speaks to the engineering efforts behind it all. Not an easy feat to integrate or bolt on. And not to mention the inertia of eco-systems of tooling on a well established platform such as Linux. Interesting times ahead and great work, my favorite community! :)
- pjmlp 7y agoOracle only got its grubby on Sun, because no one else saw any value doing a counter offer, including Google after doing their Java curved ball to Sun's licensing.