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MySQL and Java don't affect me much personally, but I think the way they've handled Solaris is a real tragedy for the industry. Larry is the new Bill. I blame
by quesera 14y ago
MySQL and Java don't affect me much personally, but I think the way they've handled Solaris is a real tragedy for the industry.
Larry is the new Bill. I blame Jonathan.
- taligent 14y agoWhat's happening to Solaris ? It is still open and available for download at http://opensolaris.org http://opensolaris.org. It just isn't being supported by Oracle anymore since they are focused on Oracle Linux.
- quesera 14y agoIt isn't inventing the next DTraces and ZFSes. FreeBSD is doing a great job of catching up with Solaris innovations. I love those guys! And maybe we can ride for a few more years on Sun's largesse. But who will push things forward?
- 4ad 14y agoNo, the gate has been closed about two years ago. Solaris is not open source anymore. The illumos guys forked the last available version of the code and push it forward independently.
- r00fus 14y agoLarry has always wanted to have Bill's place in the world. He's a far worse monopolist than Bill ever was.
- darklajid 14y agoI personally stopped using MySQL quite a while ago as well. Java, on the other hand, got resurrected for me with Groovy first, then Clojure (and a passing interest in Scala). Yeah, I know about openjdk. But they don't provide official binaries for all I know (and certainly not for Windows, linking back to the Oracle distribution).