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Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future
Sam Varghese
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:07
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Nearly six months after it completed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation is yet to make a public statement about the future of the OpenSolaris project.
Frustrated by the lack of communication from Oracle, the OpenSolaris Governig Board (OGB) has now given the company an ultimatum.
At its July 12 meeting, the board decided that if Oracle did not offer a liaison who could speak authoritatively about the future of OpenSolaris, then the board would return control of the community to Oracle on August 23.
OpenSolaris, a project launched by Sun in 2005, is an attempt to bring in developers to work on code from the well-known Solaris operating system. Sun released some of the code from Solaris but under a licence which was somewhat restrictive when compared to the GNU General Public Licence.
When Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun, the future directions of Java, MySQL and OpenOffice.org - all properties that Oracle inherited as part of the purchase - were announced.
Back in February, when OpenSolaris developer Peter Tribble suggested that a means of communications be set up between Oracle and the OGB, the latter did not treat this suggestion kindly.
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