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OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
Did IBM consider purchasing Sun?
wmf
37 days ago
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Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.
jeberle
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Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.
whartung
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Kind of like Oracle did.
rbanffy
36 days ago
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Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.
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