2010 Server OS Winners and Losers

“2010 was a pretty dramatic year in the server OS world, with
one big name disappearing in a puff of logic, another selling
itself off to the highest bidder, and a third joining Oracle’s
“evil” empire. And like any year, 2010 had some obvious winners,
some downright losers, and a quite a few merchants of “meh.” Here
are the 8 most notable server OS developments that took place in
2010.

“Server OS Winners

“Solaris: 2009 was a pretty hair-raising year for Solaris. Sun
was going down the pan; customers were defecting to HP, IBM, Red
Hat and others in droves; and the whole future of the UNIX server
OS was in doubt. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun finally went through
in January 2010, but that didn’t stop the exodus of Sun engineers
— like Solaris lead developer Greg Lavender and DTrace developer
Bryan Cantrill — or customers defections.

“So how was Solaris a winner in 2010? Well, it now has a rich
parent (Oracle), a strategy going forward (although many customers
still don’t know exactly what it is), and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
believes it has what it takes to make Solaris the world’s No. 1
Unix. That’s a vast improvement over the predicament Solaris was in
last year.”

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