Solaris 11 (final) released

[Schadenfroh]

Solaris is one of the last commercial Unix titans. How I wish Sun was never purchased by Oracle. If Oracle would just LGPL ZFS, then they could start to redeem themselves (yeh, I'm dreaming):

I love Oracle's use of buzzwords and attempted hype:
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1356190

Oracle today announced availability of Oracle Solaris 11, the first Cloud OS.

 

[KillerBee]

Yeah I know what you mean

It's amazing how a company is so greedy they can't grasp the concept of community involvement. Thankfully there is always FreeBSD staying on top of ZFS!

 

[ViRGE]

At this point are companies still doing new Solaris deployments, or is Oracle's meddling leading to a phase-out of Solaris?

 

[Nothinman]

At this point are companies still doing new Solaris deployments, or is Oracle's meddling leading to a phase-out of Solaris?

I'm sure there's some hardcore Solaris people still alive, although they should be nearing retirement now. =)

And I'm also sure there's some Oracle/Solaris/Sparc-specific stuff in existence that requires it. But other than that and the grey-beards I can't imagine why someone wouldn't look at Linux first these days.