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Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 29, 2010 16:49 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
Parent article: Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Who would be surprised ?
Just remove Oracle Solaris from the list of supported platforms.


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Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 29, 2010 20:22 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Unluckily, Solaris is the platform of choice for "Enterprise Databases"...

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 29, 2010 20:34 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Oracle is the company that will pull a server without further notice. And you want to rely on their complete platform with your enterprise's data? :-P

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 30, 2010 5:06 UTC (Fri) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Solaris was always the best underlayer for Oracle DB.
And now, certainly, Oracle Solaris is a vehicle to help sell Oracle DB.
What it has to do with PostgreSQL, I just don't know ... :>

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 30, 2010 6:26 UTC (Fri) by nicooo (guest, #69134) [Link]

Maybe they don't want Solaris to be a vehicle to help sell PostgreSQL. Luckily for Oracle this won't generate much bad publicity now that they're being sued by the government.

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 30, 2010 17:17 UTC (Fri) by joseph.h.garvin (subscriber, #64486) [Link]

Just out of curiosity, why was Solaris the best underlayer?

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 31, 2010 10:27 UTC (Sat) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Because of its sooo very serious and enterprisey look and feel.
At least I heard about that a lot.

Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)

Posted Jul 30, 2010 13:24 UTC (Fri) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

It's 2010 now.

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