Oracle killing Sun?

[daz]

Looks like it's started.

Removing the 'patches only' paid support for Solaris, as well introducing a 90 day usage trial for Solaris...

I thought people were scaremongering and being overly dramatic before. This slow strangling of a great product will limit uptake at the low end of the market and force Solaris to become even more niche than it is now. No doubt development will grind to a halt... There's talk of OpenSolaris being forked, but unless the development is taken up by a serious group I can't see it working long term.

 

[daz]

I think the important thing for Oracle is to lay out a road map for what they intend to do - let people know their plans because otherwise the Sun products will end up in limbo. Nobody knows how long they will be supported for (as well as new features developed for) in their current form, so it's a difficult choice to make to invest in an Oracle/Sun solution when you have a much more guaranteed future with another vendor.