The latest decision taken by Oracle seems to indicate that after years of struggle and struggle for customers in the IT world, the names of solutions and technologies such as Solaris, SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture), Unix and RISK will become obsolete.
Oracle acquired all these technologies in 2010 by purchasing Sun, which had previously developed them intensively for many years. At first it seemed that Oracle would continue to support them, but over time it became clear that this would be difficult, if not impossible.
Everything became clear on September 1, when Oracle informed the 2,500 employees working in the departments developing the Solaris operating system and SPARC processors (systems based on the RISC architecture) that they should start looking for a new job because they had just been made redundant. Ironically, the message was delivered to them via voicemail.
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A few days later, one of the leaders of the seven-year-old Sun company (Bryan Cantrill) published an article on his blog with the telling title “The Sudden Death and Eternal Life of Solaris”, in which he Say goodbye to this software.
Oracle indicated earlier this year that it was not interested in Solaris. He then laid off 1,800 people working on this software. It turns out that this was the first wave of layoffs, and the second – probably the last, because after it there will be no one to lay off – took place a week ago.
In January of this year, Oracle changed its Solaris roadmap. He announced that there would be no Solaris 12 system and that in its place there would be software called Solaris 11.next. This does not mean that the names SPARC and Solaris will disappear from the computing world overnight. The company promises that both technologies will be technically supported until 2034.
