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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 05 2017, @04:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the will-it-become-dark? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday September 05 2017, @07:37PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @07:37PM (#563885)

    Java is consistently in the top3 of languages used.

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