[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 05:54:00PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 9:20 AM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > Pretty unrealistic to expect the users to suddenly have the time to do
> > kernel dev.  Solaris opened sourced itself and it's dead.
> >
> >
> That one's not entirely on the users.
> 
> There's plenty of blame for Oracle as well.
> 
> I was the person nominally in charge of the OpenSolaris port to z (Neale
> Ferguson did most of the heavy lifting) when Sine Nomine built it, having
> read the tea leaves and believing that IBM would buy Sun.  And then IBM
> tightened the screws a little too far and Larry Ellison grabbed it
> instead.  Dammit.

Yeah, I'm not a Solaris fan (because SunOS) but there was some good 
technology in there.  Would have been cool if IBM kept it going.  I
never really understood why Sun was up for sale.