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Oracle Switching Solaris To A Continuous Delivery Model

posted by cmn32480 on Monday January 30 2017, @05:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-trying-to-be-like-Microsoft dept.

"exec" writes:

Last week talk of Solaris heated up again with Solaris 12 being removed from the Oracle road-map, after rumors of Oracle canning Solaris occurred in early December, meanwhile there are also more layoffs happening at Oracle. Oracle finally issued a blog post this week with a bit more clarification on the matter.

Via this Oracle.com post, Oracle Solaris will be moving to a continuous delivery model. Rather than working towards Solaris 12 or "disruptive updates", they will be working on smaller, continuous updates to Solaris 11. The post reads in part, "New features and functionality will be delivered in Oracle Solaris through dot releases instead of more disruptive major releases, consistent with trends seen throughout the industry. This addresses customer requirements for an agile and smooth transition path between versions, while providing ongoing innovation with assured investment protection."

Source:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Solaris-Continuous-Delivery

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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Monday January 30 2017, @10:24PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 30 2017, @10:24PM (#460824) Journal

    I pay for production closed source, because it is fully tested and logically complete.

    You're an optimist :-)

    Continuous model means some thing is ALWAYS not going to work. So it CANNOT be run in production and YOU personally will have to do the full testing, so there is no reason to pay for a real OS.

    No, it is possible if done properly, but I doubt Oracle want to invest the time and money to do it properly. I have worked for precisely one company that wanted to do things properly but then they decided they'd rather do it cheaper and got magic beans and snakeoil from an Indian outsourcing company...

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