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I think that Oracle may well let Solaris die in favor of Linux. They may have decided that with Linux moving forward as quickly as it is, that Solaris is just not worth the effort. One can see the same thing playing out with ZFS. ZFS is plagued with IP issues being pursued by Net App. Oracle may well be just working around Net App by instead making a furious effort to push btrfs out the door for Linux. Pushing forward on Linux has the advantage of all the additional support it garners from IBM, HP, Novell, the list goes on and on. The real opponent is MS of course, and all the companies on the other side are putting less and less effort into their own plays in favor of pushing on their joint effort with Linux. In many ways, they see Linux as their future, since, in every case, the OS is not their focus, but rather the infrastructure on which their real products rely.
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