| Goodbye OpenSolaris Oracle may discontinue the OpenSolaris package. In an internal circular, the company claims to be concentrated in the commercial version of Solaris, in an attempt to increase the company’s revenue with the sale of servers and other products. The report got a mailing OpenSolaris on Friday, March 14. For next year, Oracle announced the release of Solaris 11 and later this year, the company must put on the market an issue for developers, called Express, which comes accompanied by a plan for additional support. Oracle’s hope is to persuade companies that use the OpenSolaris to migrate to Solaris 11 Express, and later for the final release of the new distribution. In order to explain what strategy lies behind the decision, the Oracle says “cannot do everything” and points to the limitations of manpower and time to give continuity to the whole number of processes that permeates the organization’s agenda Intellectual property and beat the competition with the commercial package of the operating system is another concern of the company. Oracle also announced that it will continue to contribute to the codes of the Apache and Perl. The code of Solaris, chancellor for the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License) for open source at Oracle, will remain open.  |
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