All 1st level Solaris software managers.
All 1st level HW & Solaris software Program managers.
LA office closed.
Many SPARC HW and Solaris SW engineers.
All engineers involved with standards - UNIX, POSIX, KMIP ... gone.
Engineers working on very sensitive fixes for 3-letter organizations.
Bloodletting toward bloodbath
Microsoft is never going to waste time adding support for an EOL CPU to their compilers or kernel. Oracle already proved it’s pointless to add SPARC support to another kernel with the SPARC Linux flop - the only reason customers still buy SPARC is because they have SPARC+Solaris apps they can’t port to another OS.
"April Fools is still a week away."
Isn't meant as this. Tooling the Visual Studio C/C++ compilers that the kernel is compiled with to output reliable, if not necessarily speed or size optimized, sparc/s64 code is fairly trivial; using gcc as the model. If Java support stops also, that gives Mono/.NET an additional leg up as the primary VM/hosting environment for app development, leaving only Google, with the Android VM, as the major competition for it. Both companies may consider this a win/win situation, is all I'm getting at, and that there is little technical bar to seeing it accomplished.
Who knew the ponytail's actions would wipe out the entire company's product-line in a decade!
"Apparently the brass is hoping M$ will port the Win API to sparc in Win11"
April Fools is still a week away.
Apparently the brass is hoping M$ will port the Win API to sparc in Win11, so they can get rid of Solaris altogether and put the employee and maintenance costs/headaches on them as the hosts for Oracle DB. Watch for the DB to no longer run on Apple either sooner than later, I'd guess, as a Unix based OS...Once Solaris goes it's a small step to stopping support for the JVM also, as they retire the servers that are hosting OpenJDK as they did with OpenSolaris. This is just speculation, but is a fairly predictable progression from when the merger occurred to now, I feel.
Heartbreaking. Solaris changed the world. Oracle didn’t deserve you people.
"Yes, FJ is hedging with ARM but they're still advancing SPARC too but they'll need a supported OS."
FJ plan was to introduce a new S64 cpu in 2021. that plan was cancelled, and most probably they will present just a speed bump on the current S64 in the same timeframe, with no major hw change. basically what we have done with M7->M8.
reason is that we don't have resources to code a new Solaris to support all the new hw features the new S64 included. we don't have resources in Solaris R&D basically to do ANY enhancement, only support critical level SR (sometimes, not always) and include some open source sw pretending it's a new feature. this is true since long time, but with the latest layoffs it's really to a ridicolous level.
All customers on Solaris will move to the Oracle cloud now...... hahahahahaaa Just kidding
Europe to follow in one week.
Today in the US, other countries come later
3-letter organizations ?
This is a big a sign as any that this is no longer LE's Oracle. Which is stupid. If Oracle cedes Enterprise stability, people will run to IBM and HP lickety split.
Today was the day
Sorry to hear this. I thought they were already on dire skeleton staffing levels to support the chest-thumping Oracle rhetoric last year that Solaris would be supported until at least 2032. Heck, didn't BN just wrap up a Solaris east coast tour in the USA talking about futures? He's gone too, supposedly, but he orchestrated that of course. Still a ton of fielded Solaris and SPARC out there (despite what the naysayers in here will tell you) and a larger question revolves about Fujitsu's SPARC investment. Yes, FJ is hedging with ARM but they're still advancing SPARC too but they'll need a supported OS.
What date? Spring is too broad.