Woods on Oracle’s Taste for Solaris

The Solaris Operating System is “a fine piece of engineering,” said Dan Woods, chief technology officer and editor of research firm Evolved Technologist. But there are even more reasons why Oracle will please themselves and others by keeping the operating system alive.

Woods said that without an acquisition by Oracle or Cisco, Solaris might have been put on the proverbial shelf. “But now that Solaris will receive the marketing support that it deserves, information technology staff should be taking a close look at the operating system ...” he said.

Among the reasons for taking that closer look, Woods cited superior virtualization, scalability for large-scale multiprocessors, reliability, security, administration functionality, flexibility and energy efficiency.

Woods feels Solaris will power Oracle's cloud offerings, but through appliances, something he has said Google should consider getting into. This appliance approach to cloud services could help Oracle overcome some of the problems to cloud migration such as security, disaster recovery and moving huge amounts of data.