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>Oracle has "somewhat" terminated a platform, Oracle Linux for SPARC, which was only supported for two minor releases. The Linux for ARM64 and AMD64/x86 seem re
by dralley 6y ago
>Oracle has "somewhat" terminated a platform, Oracle Linux for SPARC, which was only supported for two minor releases. The Linux for ARM64 and AMD64/x86 seem reasonably healthy.
You're forgetting:
* They killed OpenSolaris by making it proprietary again
* They effectively killed Solaris (formerly OpenSolaris) without the formality of making it official dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
- chasil 6y agoI did say "track record on Linux OS platforms," but I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle. However, there is a long list of platforms that would never have survived elsewhere. JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, and Siebel are prime examples. And I am still using the Oracle RDB database platform. Red Hat would have euthanized all of these long, long ago.
- dralley 6y agoDo you not find it slightly unfair to count RHL, which began in 1995 and ended in 2003, when Oracle Linux wasn't released until 2006?
- chasil 6y agoAt the time, it ended a major professional chapter of my life. I do not consider it unfair.
- _-david-_ 6y ago> I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle. Not to defend Oracle, but I am pretty sure all proprietary unix have contracted over the last 10 years. AIX, HP-UX and whatever other flavors don't seem to be doing well regardless of who is controlling it. If Sun remained in control I am not sure how much better Solaris would actually be doing.