“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

Post by Tloewald » Sat, Sep 09, 2017, 4:34 PM UTC

madkangas wrote: post #380

Tloewald wrote: post #364

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I doubt Apple or NeXT would have ported their platform to Solaris (from BSD/Mach). it seems to me that BSD would have been Linux if Linux hadn't happened.

Actually, NeXT did just that. OPENSTEP ran on Mach, Solaris, HPUX, and (amazingly) Windows NT. It didn't make a difference for NeXT's market share. NeXT was acquired by Apple. 6 months later... Jobs was in charge, and history unfolded.