The end of Solaris, the UNIX-like operating system developed by Sun Microsystems, is nigh, with the core talent associated with the OS and its SPARC hardware being laid off by Oracle on Friday.
Oracle appears to have abandoned plans for Solaris 12, with no indication in its January roadmap of when this version will emerge.
When free and open source software projects fork, it is often the case that the child turns out to be much worse than the parent.
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