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It makes sense that Solaris development would slow or even stop now!

This was obviously coming for some time. All of the new Solaris development since Oracle took control has been very meager. As an example, there have been no system ABI changes in the past six+ years (which is why OpenIndiana can run Solaris 11 binaries, and vice versa).

Especially given that Fujitsu is closing down their development of new UltraSparc/Sparc64 processors (they were by far the most active UltraSparc OEMs), and since one of Solaris's best features was great UltraSparc support (better than any other OS, way better than Linux), it makes sense that Solaris development would slow or even stop now.

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And that very same Markus Flierl is now having discussion with every single Solaris development team about who is going to stay and who is going to leave. If the development team cannot justify their existence (for example being useful w.r.t. ZFS Storage Appliance) then people are either riffed or moved to Linux. Solaris as a multipurpose OS is going to cease.

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You never been through a tech downturn like the one that's happening now. Open you eyes man. It's a quarter by quarter world.

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I don't agree. Since Oracle took over Solaris, there has been a significant increase in Solaris investments across the product and certainly across the entire company, especially within SW engineering. Solaris has had a very stable/consistent release schedule as outlined in the public roadmap that Oracle released for last 5 plus years. Just this past Oracle OpenWorld 2016, Markus Flierl, Vice President at Oracle presented an update to the Solaris roadmap highlighting the strategy and objectives for future Oracle Solaris releases. Solaris 12 is expected to have over 1400 enhancements and theres even talk of Docker integration and significant advancements related to security and cloud support. Oracle has also invested billions in SPARC updates with the recent award winning SPARC M7 and recently announced SPARC S7 and now with SPARC in the Cloud and expected new SPARC in Cloud announcements not just from Oracle but also Fujitsu, there is clearly no signs of slowing down.

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