Goodbye to OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris no more
The rumor was confirmed. When Oracle bought Sun, some feared for the continuance of OpenSolaris. A few months ago a change in the license revived these fears, and now finally been confirmed in an internal memo from Oracle.
The good side of the news is that this will not mean not to free software development by Oracle, or the end of a free version of Solaris. Say, the politics of open source, licensed under the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License, incompatible with the GPL), will continue as before, and continue to contribute to other free software projects like GNOME, Perl or Apache.
As for the free version, Oracle Solaris 11 Express intended to replace the OpenSolaris systems with a free license and optional support. The idea is that eventually these systems will migrate to Solaris 11, which itself will pay.
This decision Oracle also has its bad side. Now, all the open source Solaris will only be accessible through an internal network, which have access only approved customers. This means that, even despite being mostly free, will only see certain people Solaris code. Truly a loss, because with OpenSolaris anyone could see and explore all that much code. Read more
Oracle termination Rock processors
And speaking of high-performance microprocessors that were never assembled in netbooks (or at least not for the next two decades would be more correct to say), Oracle in their altruistic and 'proven' sponsorship of scientific work in R & D (research and development ) bet heavily on SPARC / UltraSPARC progress in dismantling NiagaraT3 Rock processors, 16 cores running 32 threads and directions to 256 terabytes of RAM, a formidable performance with ZFS magnitude speed-up of hyper and open specifications for developers and carriers ; Ellison and shareholders do not need to cancel these excesses and costs.
Perhaps to their database of "computationally intensive" range with Fusion, and other Tegra System On a Chip (SOC), the IBM PowerPC and CELL run wires, coils and spider web complete with undisguised joy festive What would have happened if IBM had bought Sun?
what is happening.
Atom microcontroller with its poor performance in virtualization servers and gives us the opportunity to save the data and lower costs for Chinese prices (now made in Costa Rica).
Oracle will increase the investment in SPARC
In an interview with news agency Reuters , Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks about his vision for the business acquired by buying Sun hardware.
According to Ellison's statements of its intention to continue the hardware business, increasing the integration of its software products with the SPARC architecture. Take the example of Cisco and Apple business in which the integration can create better products. "Increasing investment in SPARC. We think designing our own processors is very, very important. "Ellison said.
Oracle buys SUN
Although not among the favorites, which has been Oracle has acquired SUN. Oracle is the largest software company, a position achieved by the success of its software to businesses and corporations, especially in its database Oracle Database. Unlike IBM, Oracle does not have much competition produtos SUN.
The cost for Oracle has been 7,400 million dollars. More vnunet.es
What if IBM buys Sun?
Lots of movement behind the issue of the possible sale of SUN.
After a start that almost was taken for the purchase made by IBM, SUN backed off by the low supply of Big Blue.
But there are few companies that are interested in a purchase of this magnitude, so IBM resumes as a serious candidate.
In what respects us, it is clear that this would create a problem because both companies are directly competing operating systems, especially AIX (IBM) and Solaris (SUN).
Not to mention that IBM actively working with Linux. How fitting Solaris?
Besides actively maintains IBM z / OS and IBM i. Is he willing to maintain a more?
What will happen to SPARC and PowerPC?
IBM in talks to buy SUN
Gradually, the rumors have become more solid and seems to confirm the negotiations between IBM and Sun Microsystems.
A few weeks ago sounded the rumor that Sun was seeking a buyer to stabilize its financial situation, pointing to IBM as a stakeholder. Today vnunet.es assumes that negotiations are well advanced.
In any case to be seen whether this operation will be permitted by regulatory authorities of competition, as only HP and Dell would be as direct competition.
Βeta2 NexentaCore Platform 2.0
OpenSolaris build104 + Symbiosis and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (replacing Debian) to gain support for hardware, can now use apt-clone from Zetta Filesystem to install, manage, update applications Sun / Linux compatible (13000 packages in the repository). A GNU with Solaris kernel but he seems to Linux.
File. Iso.zip to burn or virtualize >>>>>>
Syllable Desktop
If it were just a new operating system jumps to the fore.
Syllable is, although in Alpha phase is suitable for testing on a desktop.
Syllable is a project whose goal is to produce an operating system, lightweight, stable and easy to use. At the time they develop two families: Syllable Desktop and Syllable Server.
Syllable Desktop is a free and open OS, according to the terms of GNU.
We made it clear that this system uses the Linux kernel to drive an X-Window desktop, but it is a system where the core and the GUI is completely integrated one-piece, lightweight and efficient.
This allows completely without X-Windows system and toolkit, making software development a simple task, if you know languages like C or C + +.
Syllable Desktop has a Unix-style architecture, but is quite friendly and no technical knowledge required to use it.
Seen in: Wikipedia, Syllable
Speaking of ZFS ...
Here you can find some visual information that I found quite interesting about that, according to the present, is only the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with ZFS. Of course the video is provided by Sun.
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