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I think like, a big part of this was Solaris has near zero chance of gaining headshare among people who need Unix. Solaris has value for customers with vendor l

by Aloha 3y ago

I think like, a big part of this was Solaris has near zero chance of gaining headshare among people who need Unix. Solaris has value for customers with vendor lock in, and its a declining revenue source which can be ridden out for a decade or two, and then discontinued.

yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
Yeah, probably the consistent way to explain it is that Oracle thought they could get away with it for Solaris but the market of Linux distros is quite healthy and they don't have the power to pull the same thing so they push the other angle instead.
- Aloha 3y ago
  As the poster I replied to pointed out, the lawnmower only cares about making money.
chasil 3y ago
I don't think that awaits Solaris. The Rdb database for OpenVMS is still getting updates, and a new port to the VMS-x86 release that has recently emerged. https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.htm...
- Aloha 3y ago
  VMS has a might higher degree of lock-in than Solaris does.