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Oracle: SELECT * FROM SunOracle: SELECT * FROM SunPosted Apr 22, 2009 14:23 UTC (Wed) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059)Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun Oracle has invested heavily enough in Linux to create a real impression of believing in the platform. Oracle has not invested in Solaris (which is also free software, remember) at anything close to the same level That is true, but is the past. If this transaction closes, Oracle will have retroactively invested billions in Solaris.
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Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun Posted Apr 22, 2009 20:18 UTC (Wed) by ArbitraryConstant (guest, #42725) [Link]
The question is, what benefit do they get from funding ongoing development of Solaris.
On Linux they can get features they want simply by funding them, but they don't have to fund everything, and they get the vast majority of maintenance and so forth for free. Given that, what's the benefit for switching everything they can over to Solaris?
Even if they now own Solaris, competing against Linux as a commodity OS is a death sentence. Oracle's value proposition comes from the products they sell on top of the OS, not the OS itself. Given that, I don't think it makes sense for them to be in the OS business.
I'll bet the same thing for Solaris that I do for SPARC: they put it into maintenance mode to fulfill their support obligations, and let it slowly fade away.
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