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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:46PM
You should never believe anything coming from a marketing drone --- corporate or otherwise and no matter the context. There is one thing that discipline is about, finding new and improved ways to lie to people. Nothing else about it.