Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer 392
rubycodez writes "Oracle, having acquired Sun Microsystems, including its Unix, will no longer give away free Solaris licenses. Oracle also states that some features of its Oracle Solaris will not appear in OpenSolaris, which means OpenSolaris may start to die."
I feel sorry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:May? (Score:1, Funny)
Well, judging by Mysql's lack of scaling beyond this limit. I'd say they have a decent argument on this one.
Re:That Article's Title Should Be... (Score:3, Funny)
Solaris? (Score:3, Funny)
What's that?
Re:Solaris? (Score:5, Funny)
Solaris? What's that?
It's a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, famously adapted to film in 1972 by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its main theme is the impossibility of communication between humans and a completely non-humanoid alien life form.
Re:May? (Score:1, Funny)
Oracle has been above Microsoft on my "evil" list for quite a few years now.
And you're not coming to his birthday party either.
Re:No surprise - Larry Ellison, remember? (Score:3, Funny)
In war you don't give away anything. Just most people don't know that Larry Ellison is at war; his weapon, technology; his battleground, the reachable universe; his goal, ruthless conquest and absolute domination.
Maybe he just needs a new boat?
Re:I feel sorry (Score:3, Funny)
Re:May? (Score:2, Funny)
Right... because the only reason that Bellsouth used your products for their CRM is because one of the directors at BS lost a golf game. Now everyone there is stuck with a slow ass POS DB and java front end that barely works. Way to go!!
Re:May? (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, if only I could believe that. I might believe it of IBM, which appears to have a future.
Ah, you must not be working at IBM....
Re:Talk about high aspirations (Score:2, Funny)
A 12-year sysadmin sounds a lot like a long-term member of the Janitor's union to me
This sysadmin, 8 years at current job, makes a few dollars shy of $93K. Great benefits, excellent pension, 4 weeks holidays...
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