Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard

It was a truly sad day when Oracle bought Sun, because we knew right then that ZFS wouldn&#x27;t improve nearly as many people&#x27;s lives as it should have, and that Solaris would die.<p>The ZFS thing still bums me out to this day, but I think I got over the demise of Solaris when OpenSolaris fizzled out.

There&#x27;s a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ?<p>Either way, I&#x27;ve always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they&#x27;re on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It&#x27;s incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.

There is a great demand for systems engineers. It&#x27;s _very_ hard to find low level developers on the market. Don&#x27;t be intimidated by stupid requirements on job ads like &quot;linux experience&quot; - is easy to adapt to the OS-specific environment. The valuable skill is not OS-specific, it&#x27;s &quot;reading long piece of C with understanding&quot;!

This is natural and to be expected. Whether we like it or not Solaris went the way of Novell Netware. They have a lot of customers but no new orders. So the staff needs to be kept around simply to serve existing customers out of which lot of them would move tofuture proof systems every quarter. So every quarter they will see loss of revenue and attrition in their customer base. How long can they continue to support such a group?