Oracle and Its Silence May Dissolve OpenSolaris Board

July 19, 2010

Oracle and open source might have more difficulty than Mel Gibson and his significant other.

There’s a report of trouble brewing over Oracle keeping things close to the hip about the future of OpenSolaris. The project, which is an open-source version of Sun’s Solaris distribution of Unix, has run into snags since Oracle bought Sun in February.

Frustrated by the lack of open discourse from Oracle, The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) has issued an ultimatum. The accompanying article OpenSolaris Board May Quit Over Oracle’s Silence even goes on to say that Oracle needs to appoint a liaison by August 16. The significance lies in the fact that under those circumstances, the control in OpenSolaris would be returned to Oracle.

Oracle might not worry too much about these things. They are a commercial outfit and all in all, walkouts do attract attention. Still at least one board member understands how damaging these things can be to a firm’s reputation according to comments made by John Plocher.

Will there be a reconciliation? In Hollywood, the publicists decide. The addled goose is happy with the Lucid Imagination approach.

Rob Starr, July 19, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, Financial, News, Open source

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