Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
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Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#2There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ?
Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#3There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ? Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle a…
> makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.
Java and MySQL were probably important reasons.
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#4It was a truly sad day when Oracle bought Sun, because we knew right then that ZFS wouldn't improve nearly as many people's lives as it should have, and that Solaris would die.
The ZFS thing still bums me out to this day, but I think I got over the demise of Solaris when OpenSolaris fizzled out.
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#5There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ? Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle a…
Is the knowledge really being lost? These people will get jobs elsewhere. With their experience, they might end up working on some other OS, and bringing the benefits of their knowledge to other systems that are now more widely used, so this may actually be beneficial in the long run. I suppose it's a cliche, but markets are supposed to allocate resources where they are best used.
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#6There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ? Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle a…
Maybe on top of that we should consider that almost no one else would cared, there was hopes that IBM or Google would do it, but they didn't.
So if it wasn't for Oracle, maybe Sun's heritage would already have been lost much sooner.
Not that it excuses what happened afterwards, this is just the typical Fortune 500 attitude that only cares about Excel sheet reports.
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#7There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ? Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle a…
> makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place. Java and MySQL were probably important reasons.
Yep. I thought the first thing they did was sue google over java usage in android.
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#8There is a great demand for systems engineers. It's _very_ hard to find low level developers on the market. Don't be intimidated by stupid requirements on job ads like "linux experience" - is easy to adapt to the OS-specific environment. The valuable skill is not OS-specific, it's "reading long piece of C with understanding"!
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#9There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ? Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle a…
Maybe on top of that we should consider that almost no one else would cared, there was hopes that IBM or Google would do it, but they didn't. So if it wasn't for Oracle, maybe Sun's heritage would already have been lost much sooner. Not that it excuses what happened afterwards, this is just the typical Fortune 500 attitude that only cares about Excel sheet reports.
I thought that IBM wanted to acquire Sun as well, but it was Oracle who simply outbid them ?
Re: Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
#10It was a truly sad day when Oracle bought Sun, because we knew right then that ZFS wouldn't improve nearly as many people's lives as it should have, and that Solaris would die. The ZFS thing still bums me out to this day, but I think I got over the demise of Solaris when OpenSolaris fizzled out.
ZFS is definitely still a thing. With the creation of the OpenZFS project, and the Linux port, the future is looking bright.