Oracle previews Solaris 11, due in November

Found on The Register on Tuesday, 04 October 2011
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Contrary to what many might be thinking, particularly after comments made by Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison two weeks ago, Solaris 11 will be enthusiastically supported on both Sparc and x86 platforms – and not just Oracle's own x86 platforms, but those made by others.

"I don't care if our commodity x86 business goes to zero," he said "We don't make any money on it. We have no interest in selling other peoples' IP. Commodity x86 includes Intel IP, and Microsoft IP. We don't make money selling that. Sun sold that stuff, and we are phasing out that business. We have no interest in it whatsoever. We have interest in selling systems that include our IP. That's how we are going to drive the profitability of our overall hardware business – eventually."

As if one could care about Solaris anymore, now that Oracle has it. Larry should be a little more honest too: if Oracle only wants to sell Oracle IP, then he maybe should think twice about taking RedHat Enterprise Linux and renaming it to Oracle Linux. Larry just wants to throw out everything that does not generate enough money, even if that means killing promising software. That's what they did with OpenSolaris, OpenOffice and MySQL.