Applications developed on earlier releases of Oracle Solaris will run without difficulty on subsequent versions, enabling customers to purchase new systems or upgrade the OS on older systems without concern for investment protection. With the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee applications that run on an OS release of Oracle Solaris 2.6 or later, including their initial release and all updates, will run the latest releases of Oracle Solaris. Oracle offers an Preflight Application Checker tool for Solaris 11 that checks an application for compatibility with Oracle Solaris 11. The Oracle Solaris Guarantee Program is valid through December 31, 2013.
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The video of Bryan's talk is now available. He is a great speaker and he adds much to the slide deck. Warning: some of his remarks are quite frank.
The Illumos project is the fully open community fork of the OpenSolaris operating system lead by Garrett D'Amoreat of Nexenta.
Joyent VP for Engineering Bryan Cantrill colorfully details "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" in his presentation that answers the question "WTF is illumos?" in the following way:
An open source descendant of OpenSolaris, which itself was a branch of Solaris Nevada which was the name of the release after Solaris10, and was open but is now closed, and is itself a descendant of Solaris2.x, but it can all be called "SunOS5.x" -- but not "SunOS4.x" --"(that's different).
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Oracle reports that its GAAP earnings per share were $0.43, up 17% compared to last year while non-GAAP earnings per share were up 6% to $0.54. GAAP operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was $13.1 billion. “Non-GAAP operating margins increased to 45% in Q2,” said Oracle President and CFO, Safra Catz, “and we expect those margins to keep growing. Operating cash flow over the last twelve months grew to $13.1 billion; that’s up a remarkable 45% compared to the preceding twelve month period.”
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Gartner reports that server shipments worldwide are up 7% and revenue up 5% in 2011Q3. IBM led the worldwide server market based on revenue while HP declined 3.6 percent year-on-year and Oracle exhibited flat growth. HP held on to its leadership position in server shipments despite a decline for the quarter. Dell was in second place and IBM in third. The Register confirms Gartner's finding, noting that "shipment and revenue levels on a global basis have more or less recovered to the levels prevailing ahead of the server crash in the wake of the Great Recession three years ago."
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Some major shifts in emphasis among CIOs of European Communciations Service Providers (CSPs) were discovered in a survey conducted by PwC. Chief among these changes was the declared intention to outsource a number of areas of their business in 2012, including network and fault management, and provisioning and order management. Another major change is in the area of bespoke applications, which are being replaced by commercial off-the-shelf applications. Respondents contend that their increased use of COTS in 2012 and the associated lower total cost of ownership will allow them to target more of their budget to growth activities.
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Viewers can watch Oracle President Mark Hurd and Executive Vice President, Systems, Oracle, introduce Oracle Solaris 11 to the IT world in this replay of the original event on November 9, 2011. In their remarks, Hurd and Fowler describe Oracle Solaris 11 as the industry's best UNIX operating system with unique features, including advanced file system technologies, advanced security, and built-in virtualization in every dimension. They explain further that Oracle Solaris 11 has been engineered, tested, and supported to get the most of SPARC and x86 systems.
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