[stingraycharles]

There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ?

Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.

[jdale27]

Is the knowledge really being lost? These people will get jobs elsewhere. With their experience, they might end up working on some other OS, and bringing the benefits of their knowledge to other systems that are now more widely used, so this may actually be beneficial in the long run. I suppose it's a cliche, but markets are supposed to allocate resources where they are best used.

[pjmlp]

Maybe on top of that we should consider that almost no one else would cared, there was hopes that IBM or Google would do it, but they didn't.

So if it wasn't for Oracle, maybe Sun's heritage would already have been lost much sooner.

Not that it excuses what happened afterwards, this is just the typical Fortune 500 attitude that only cares about Excel sheet reports.

[stingraycharles]

I thought that IBM wanted to acquire Sun as well, but it was Oracle who simply outbid them ?

[pjmlp]

Usually on a sales process one bids more than once if there is really interest in getting the product.

[johansch]

> makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.

Java and MySQL were probably important reasons.

[snarfy]

Yep. I thought the first thing they did was sue google over java usage in android.

[pron]

Sun wanted to sue as well but didn't have the resources as it was, unfortunately, dying.

[pron]

Because some of dying Sun's products could yet be made profitable though others couldn't?