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Solaris is a proprietary Unix that Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Teamed with Sun’s own SPARC silicon, the OS was an unusually scalable and reliable option in its day and Sun’s early attention to web-scale tech made it a common choice for Web 1.0 players.

And in 2018 Oracle just about confirmed that status by halting development of a major upgrade and freezing the OS at version 11.4, plus continuous patches and package updates.

Recognizing that Solaris is the sort of kit that underpins mission critical applications that could run for decades, Oracle promised to offer ongoing support and continuous updates for Solaris well into the future – but no further big-bang releases.

Oracle continues to encourage migration of Solaris apps to version 11.4 and has tried to make such efforts easier by packaging the OS in developer-friendly forms.

But clearly there are still Solaris users out there who see the OS as a big part of their future, and are willing to pay for that privilege.

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