Monday, July 13, 2009

Why Is OpenSolaris Gathering Dust on a Shelf at Oracle?

Why Is OpenSolaris Gathering Dust on a Shelf at Oracle? - PC World: "People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle has long used Linux internally both on its servers and on some of its desktops. So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: 'Nothing.'"