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: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday September 05 2017, @06:09PM (2 children)
The polite form of the popular backronym is "one rich American called Larry Ellison".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:10PM (1 child)
He has a mansion you can see from orbit. All by himself his property taxes were funding the schools.
But then somehow he convinced the city to reappraise his mention. IIRC the schools lost $3M in funding.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @04:49AM
I mentioned my appraisal once, they told me to live in it!?