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Illumos spoons OpenSolaris |
By Alex Handy
Don't call Illumos a fork of OpenSolaris. When the project was officially announced last week, Illumos was described as an attempt to fully open-source OpenSolaris by working alongside Oracle. And while Illumos is not a fork, the project is all about giving the community the power to fork.
In many ways, the fate of OpenSolaris mirrors that of Java. When Sun decided to create the OpenJDK, the first thing it had to do was replace the proprietary portions of Java code with open-source alternatives. For the OpenJDK, that meant writing new cryptography and font code. For OpenSolaris, it means writing a completely open-source libc, some new drivers and a new NFS lock manager. ...READ MORE
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Mono Tools for debugging come to Linux, Mac |
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Novell's Mono project has updated Mono Tools to help developers debug applications targeting Linux, Mac OS and Unix from Microsoft’s Visual Studio.
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Oracle jumps onboard the Eclipse Helios train |
By Alex Handy
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Along with the standard Eclipse 3.6 IDE features, Oracle has updated the Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g to include new server administration tools for WebLogic. Prior to its acquisition by Oracle, BEA Systems maintained an extensive set of Eclipse-based tools for its WebLogic server, and it would appear that some of those features have now migrated into the Enterprise Pack. ...READ MORE
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Analytics meets automation in latest OpenSpan |
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Linkapalooza |
 The Linker is particularly pleased with today's date, what with it being extremely sequential and all. It's tough, though, for him to become excited about a date, as typically he prefers to become excited about imaginary and irrational numbers. There is no Pi i day, however.
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Zeichick's Take: Unix is important, and Solaris is important
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 Glancing across my office, I see a Sun workstation running Solaris. Well, it’s normally running Solaris, but I haven’t turned it on for a while, mainly because I’ve not done any hands-on work with Unix and NetBeans for a while.
When Oracle acquired Sun, there was lots of talk about certain software assets, like MySQL and Java. Other Sun software, such as Solaris and DTrace, were also talked about, but as they weren’t significant direct revenue drivers or essential to Sun’s software licensing business, they didn’t get much attention.
Yet Solaris is important. It’s one of the most important Unix dialects, particularly for the data center. Yes, there’s IBM’s AIX and other versions of Unix, and yes, there are many flavors of Linux running in rack after rack of pizza boxes all over the world. (Of course, Linux isn’t Unix, but it’s Unix-like.)
How important is Solaris to Oracle? There’s no way of knowing. It often seems that Larry Ellison has been channeling Steve Jobs, that’s how reticent the company is about its future plans. I don’t expect Oracle to kill Solaris or OpenSolaris; too many products and customers use them. But without some evidence of investment, my guess is that they're considered to be non-strategic assets and will receive minimal attention.
Oracle, after all, makes its money by selling and supporting expensive enterprise products. Solaris is never going to be a money-maker, not on the scale of Oracle’s other software products. Only Microsoft, it seems, can make money on an operating system.
That brings me to the Illumos project, the “spoon” of Solaris that Alex Handy wrote about last week. Because OpenSolaris is mainly open source, there’s the opportunity for outside groups to create and evolve it to a viable, fully open-source version of Solaris.
Will Illumos succeed? Beats me. Will Oracle see it as an opportunity or as a threat, or will it be ignored completely? It’s clearly too early to tell. However, I hope that Oracle sees Illumos as a sign that Solaris is a strategic product worth investing in.
Alan Zeichick is editorial director of SD Times. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/zeichick. Read his blog at ztrek.blogspot.com.
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