After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again

With open source software, there's a sixth option. As long as it's real open source and not compromised in some way, the community around the free-software commons can rehost and carry on. They can step aside from the original project host and follow the vision they collectively believe in. This can be a fork -- as it was for Jenkins and LibreOffice -- or it can be a straightforward continuation of a discarded initiative, as in the case of Apache River (Jini) or, notably, the heirs of OpenSolaris.

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Oracle dumps OpenSolaris(Aug 17, 2010)
• RIP OpenSolaris(Jul 17, 2010)
• OpenSolaris distros(Jan 14, 2009)
• OpenSolaris vs Linux(Sep 14, 2009)
• What's the Future for OpenSolaris?(Jun 10, 2009)
• Schrock: Analysts on OpenSolaris(Sep 25, 2004)
• A considered future for OpenSolaris(Jul 16, 2010)