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wmf on Aug 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution

Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.

jeberle on Aug 13, 2025 | [–]

Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.

whartung on Aug 13, 2025 | [–]

Kind of like Oracle did.

rbanffy on Aug 14, 2025 | [–]

Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.

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