On: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

[DonHopkins]

I wonder if the poor guy from Sun with the Worst Job in the World was hired by Oracle and still has his terrible job?

http://eng.umd.edu/~blj/funny/worst-job.html

[smarks → DonHopkins]

Ha, that's funny. I had almost forgotten about the SunOS-vs-Solaris wars. Everybody wanted to hang onto SunOS as long as possible. Seems ironic that (many) people feel this way about Solaris now.

[DonHopkins → smarks]

Remember the poster they were giving out at Usenix with a picture of the BSD Tie Fighter blowing up the AT&T Death Star, and the mathematical formulation "4.x > V for all values of x from zero to infinity"?

It just didn't make sense that Sun kicked AT&T's ass with BSD Unix, and then capitulated to them by switching over to SVR4.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there was some business reason, but it was a bitter pill to swallow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars

[amacbride → DonHopkins]

Remember when you had to boot it into kadb and fiddle around with symbols to get it to run at all? (IDR3.2 or so)

Good times, good times...