Following the recent news about the future of Sun from Larry Ellison itself, we now can hope about more things to come on Solaris, both on SPARC and x86 platforms. In particular, this quote is particularly encouraging:
\[\...\]So we are a supporter of Linux, but Solaris is a more mature operating system designed for bigger systems. We support both.
In the very same vein, I just heard from two different sources these upcoming changes from Oracle:
- The just release Oracle Database 11g Release 2, currently available only for Linux (and released on 1 September 2009), will be available soon--one to two months--for both Solaris SPARC and x86, at the same time.
- Secondly, Solaris x86 will be raised to Tier 2 platform from Tier 3 currently.
Well, pretty good news in fact! Seems that Solaris will be a serious and growing competitor in the (near) future!