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Requiem for an OS: OpenSolaris board closes shop

Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as well.
Oracle signals an end to OpenSolaris

Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.
OpenSolaris Governing Board may dissolve

Frustrated by what they consider poor treatment and lack of interest from Oracle, members of the OpenSolaris Governing Board are essentially delivering an ultimatum to the vendor, asking that it appoint a liaison to the group by no later than Aug. 16, or else the board will be disbanded.
OpenSolaris leaders unnerved by Oracle silence

Frustrated by Oracle's delay in releasing the latest version of OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) is growing uneasy over Oracle's lack of communication regarding the future of the Unix OS code.
OpenSolaris 2009.06 filled with major virtualization, storage upgrades

Sun Monday made available the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, which included for the first time Sun's Crossbow technology for creating virtual network infrastructure on a single system.

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