Oracle is NOT taking back OpenSolaris, ZDNet Dana Blankenhorn got it wrong.

Once again the FUD around Solaris and OpenSolaris fate started to spread after Dana Blankenhorn misunderstood the licensing terms and used a eye catching and visitor increasing title, Oracle taking back OpenSolaris, for his blog entry. Well, from this article we can get that even the veteran writers can get things wrong and spread incorrect news :-) Folks, Solairs is one of the biggest Sun assets that Oracle is now own by taking over Sun . Solaris and OpenSolaris are going to be around in a much better shape than before because Oracle is betting its fight for the market share on this operating system to form a complete stack including storage, hardware, OS, middle-ware, support and so on. Oracle may change the licensing terms for the Solaris OS, which is the Commercial distribution of OpenSolaris (with some added/ removed components) supported by Sun in old era, but to close the OpenSolaris code-base, no way. Changing the licensing terms can be result of Oracle seeking a higher revenue stream from the product and I bet Oracle will be able to get more out of Solaris than Sun because of its powerful marketing department :-P Looking at the these FUD from any angel tells you that they are not correct because of at least the following reasons: OpenSolaris has a large community around it which Oracle do not like to send away. The Solaris/ OpenSolaris adoption highly increased after Sun pushed the source ...

Date: April, 01 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2010/04/01/another-fud-zdnet-about-opensolaris-fate

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