Recently I've read that the next Solaris was pushed for the next year, but the way things are going currently, the only things that are happening are cuts in both development and maintenance teams and resources. Anybody else thinks that Oracle will be completely abandon it before long?
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so will Oracle really support until 2031?
There's so much of the S12 code changes that were not backported to S11. A lot of the development effort required a pre-RTI full test cycle for S12 AND S11.3 due to the differences. They weren't just backports but actual code rework due to the differences. I don't think it's feasible to separate out the features for backport to 11.4 from s12. Also, having an 11.4 be anything other than the actual S12 renamed to S11.4 doesn't really make sense since an 11.4 by itself has anything going back to S11.3 SRU having to go through S12->S11.4->S11.3 SRU.
I'm assuming internally that 12 has been rename 11.4 already. This is just playing the marketing game and it's likely Solaris Engineering still calls '11.4' Solaris 12. Or, what's left of the caracass.
I really doubt it was just a renaming. The Solaris 12 and 11 codebases split in 2011. If the "fall 2018" Solaris is really S12, it will be obvious... there will be a lot of things that got removed, replaced, and added in the last 7 years.
I think the "fall 2018" release will look a lot like Solaris 11.3 with nothing removed, and a short list of new features that could be quickly backported from the 12 codebase. It sounds like most of that work has already been done, but will take a year for the now-smaller crew to test, certify, and release.
Hopefully slides or at least audience reports of what MF... oops, BN... talks about at oepn world this year will be made public. I bet that a lot of features MF has talked about in the last open worlds are no longer on the table.
Even if Oracle do another minor Solaris release, it will be pointless. S12 was renamed to 11.4 in an attempt to reduce fear of app requal by custs & ISV's. With the recent cuts, no ISV will bother spending the money on requalifying their apps for another minor release.
It's a dead duck.
Solaris.next is called Centos 7.
Who cares? The real remaining interest in Solaris is in a fragment of on prem. On prem is a declining industry. This is true globally. It is true for Oracle. It is true for HP, IBM, Dell, you name it. It is true for SAP, Microsoft, (fill in blank with "enterprise" SW vendor). Nothing you did or did not do could stop it. Nothing you could do now or in the future can stop it. Cloud uses Linux. Get over it. Solaris is so 1999.
There is no Solaris Next ! Just bug fixes if the customer is lucky. Bugs are fixed in a lottery scheme. If anyone telling there is a Solaris Next or Solars 11.4 or Solaris 12 -- They are pathetic liars.