The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Grishnakh on Tuesday September 05 2017, @05:13PM (1 child)
Kudos to Oracle for finally freeing these enslaved developers! It was wrong to keep them bound in wage slavery this long, but it's good to see Oracle finally admitting its mistake and letting them go free. IBM also emancipated many of its servants, but way back in '03 [theonion.com]. Better late than never, I guess.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday September 05 2017, @05:28PM
IBM has freed 10-15% of its (wage) slaves every year or two. They have been very proactive about this:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/ibm_bloodbath_continues/ [theregister.co.uk]
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/03/23/0350234 [soylentnews.org]
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