Oracle said on Friday informed in an internal e-mail its employees about the future of Solaris, which is to appear next version 2011th mention in this message, the controller Mike Shapiro, Bill Nesheim and Chris Armes also what future plans they have with OpenSolaris, the open source version of the operating system. Accordingly, the distribution of Open Solaris is actually set and the publication of source code is to follow only the binary distribution of Solaris. Recent users of OpenSolaris will, however, a simple upgrade to Solaris 11 Express be made possible. At the licensing is to change, according to this document, nothing. The support of open source projects like Apache, and Perl should be retained.
On 3 August was the OpenSolaris project communitiy Illumos launched because the group, according to the developers, not to his promise or about Sun’s joint development of the project was bound. This message is Oracle now officially working with the developer community outside of a group.
Sun Microsystems on 27 acquired by Oracle in January 2010 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. Sun Solaris also developed other than the Java platform and the same programming language and the MySQL database management system.