Oracle guaranteed the future development of the project OpenSolaris

Recently, there was a topic on Habré describing the concern of the community about the further development of the operating system OpenSolaris. And at the OpenSolaris developer meeting, Dan Roberts, a member of Oracle's board of directors, spoke.


He dispelled rumors and speculations associated with the likely termination of support for the project OpenSolaris. The essence of the speech of Dan Roberts is reduced to the following statements:

* Oracle will continue the development of OpenSolaris as an OpenSource project, will strongly promote the development and support of the community;

* Oracle will continue to form releases of the OpenSolaris distribution, the next release of OpenSolaris 2010.03 as planned will be released in March;
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* Oracle will increase investments in the Solaris OS, the amount of funding allocated will be more than Sun Microsystems has spent on Solaris;

* Oracle will provide its own development and technology for inclusion in the OpenSolaris;

* Oracle will continue to develop open source technologies in open form; there will be no changes in licensing and transition to proprietary development methods. But Oracle does not guarantee that previously developed closed-source add-ons will be open, most likely they will remain closed;

* Regular users and independent members of the developer community will not notice any changes in the structure of the project OpenSolaris;

* Oracle considers Solaris to be one of its main activities, and this also applies to support for Solaris versions for SPARC and x86 platforms.