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>Oracle has "somewhat" terminated a platform, Oracle Linux for SPARC, which was only supported for two minor releases. The Linux for ARM64 and AMD64/x86 seem reasonably healthy.

You're forgetting:

* They killed OpenSolaris by making it proprietary again

* They effectively killed Solaris (formerly OpenSolaris) without the formality of making it official dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/



I did say "track record on Linux OS platforms," but I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle.

However, there is a long list of platforms that would never have survived elsewhere. JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, and Siebel are prime examples.

And I am still using the Oracle RDB database platform.

Red Hat would have euthanized all of these long, long ago.


> I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle.

Not to defend Oracle, but I am pretty sure all proprietary unix have contracted over the last 10 years. AIX, HP-UX and whatever other flavors don't seem to be doing well regardless of who is controlling it. If Sun remained in control I am not sure how much better Solaris would actually be doing.


Do you not find it slightly unfair to count RHL, which began in 1995 and ended in 2003, when Oracle Linux wasn't released until 2006?


At the time, it ended a major professional chapter of my life.

I do not consider it unfair.




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