I had an interview today with one of the top companies in the valley , and I was meeting with the director.
He was telling me about the platforms their tool support and he said " we used to support Solaris years ago but it was apparent to us its dying so we cut the support a while back "
Not something you want to hear while applying to a company as an oracle employee .
The EDA vendors stopped supporting sparc because we stopped paying them to.
Not news. Customers started bailing on Solaris as soon as Sun went up for sale almost 10 years ago.
I was meeting with someone today and they told me they don't use Oracle's cloud. When I mentioned it on my resume they just laughed at me and said I might want to keep that off. They said they liked my skills and they should transfer over well but Oracle is not thought of as highly as they once were.
Nothing new, folks. Sun had a great run in the 80s and 90s, but this technology is obsolete now. Technology becomes obsolete - Oracle actually kept Solaris goIng for 8 more years, but business conditions change. Make sure you have a job where you focus on newer technologies.
As an ME employee, I see in the past few years that our own CR shifts from Sparc/Solaris to x86/Linux as most vendors drop Sparc/Solaris support...So sad.
The company the OP had interview sounds like Cadence. It stopped supporting Solaris couple years ago.