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What is Oracle's strategy for ZFS and Solaris other than continuing support for existing products ? There were quite a few stories about the imminent death of Solaris earlier this year. Wouldn't Oracle stand to benefit from an official ZoL product that they can sell with their linux product ?

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> There were quite a few stories about the imminent death of Solaris earlier this year.

Those stories were unsubstianted FUD. Solaris is alive and kicking. I would know, because I am working on a particular component that will be part of the next version of Solaris.

Not to stir the pot, but what do you think of illumos (especially since most of the original Solaris talent left Oracle after the OpenSolaris fiasco in 2010 and went to work on illumos).

> what do you think of illumos

It's great. I love it. I wish Solaris was still open sourced and the open source aspect of it better managed than it used to be in OpenSolaris days so that there wouldn't be any need of a fork but I like it.

> especially since most of the original Solaris talent left Oracle after the OpenSolaris fiasco in 2010 and went to work on illumos

A lot of people left indeed. But most people? Hmm...

Illumos may stagnate further with OmniOS development ceasing. https://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2017-April...

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