[ale] please bow your head for a moment of silence...

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

The article about the layoffs:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/04/oracle_layoffs_solaris_sparc_teams/

Carly didn’t kill HP-UX – it was alive and (mostly) well after she left.   What they did kill is the PA-RISC chip in favor of Itanium.   I recently saw a job posting requesting HP-UX but it was the first I saw in some time but truth be told HP-UX was always a niche admin position based on all my job searches over the years.   Oddly enough it was Oracle that tried to kill  HP-UX after they bought Sun by announcing they wouldn’t support Itanium any longer.  I *think* HP successfully sued them over that and they were required to continue support for another 10 years but don’t recall how long ago that was.

I too see a Solaris being requested frequently.   I see more for AIX.

A few years back I turned down a friends offer to present me to his company for another job because I  didn’t want to do “only” Linux.   Now I’d not consider any job that isn’t primarily Linux.   I liked UNIX (HP-UX most of all) but most people have been migrating to Linux off of UNIX for several years.   As of last year we quit using our last UNIX systems when we retired the payroll software that required it.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Payne
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 11:09 AM
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] please bow your head for a moment of silence...

I was surprised, in my job hunt, over the last month I have five jobs, in the Atlanta area looking for a Solaris Admin.

I guess Solaris is used by a lot of banking, like AS/400 machines ( sorry I know that the same OS to Hardware ).

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:53 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com<mailto:leamhall at gmail.com>> wrote:
Given the Linux adoption of systemd the only options seem to be "Winderz with a GUI", "Winderz with a command line", "Expensive Fruit", or some flavor of BSD.



On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com<mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
What's left besides AIX? Carly pulled the plug on HPUX a long time back. IRIX (zombie)?

Oh. That never gonna amount to much more than an experiment little upstart called Linux.

I won't miss slowos but I feel for the newly unemployed.
On September 6, 2017 2:02:20 AM EDT, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com<mailto:terrorpup at gmail.com>> wrote:
Not sure if anyone saw the post, but Oracle laidoff all the Solaris people, a lot of the articles are calling it the final nail in Sun's coffin.

As a Solaris admin, I am a bit sad, I remember when the user group went away after the sale of Sun to Oracle. I also remember the end of openSolaris (please note there were three distro of openSolaris at the time of it''s end).

You know more to me Oracle is a technology killer than technology innovator it's really sad I'm going to miss Solaris. Plus, Sparc computers. I used Ultra25 for three yeara, great machine.

SunOS is dead, long live SunOS (Solaris).

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