Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:14 am

OpenSolaris: Oracle cuts life-line

Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle seems to plan to end the OpenSolaris project, according to an internal memo. "All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology will be focused on Solaris 11," the memo says. "We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris binaries, or an [...]

Oracle may drop support for MySQL

Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): In a broad advertising campaign involving The Wall Street Journal (wsj) and other business oriented publications around the world, Oracle tries to assure current and potential Sun customers that the company stands behind Sun’s SPARC hardware and the Solaris operating system. The campaign states that Oracle intends to spent more money developing [...]