Samsung to aquire Joyent, one of major companies behind Illumos, the free Solaris fork
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Joyent | Samsung acquires Joyent: A CTO’s perspective
At least they are remaining a seperate independent company under Samsung and have promised to keep Joyent's stack open source. Here is to hoping this turns out better than the Oracle takeover of Sun.
At least they are remaining a seperate independent company under Samsung and have promised to keep Joyent's stack open source. Here is to hoping this turns out better than the Oracle takeover of Sun.
Sounds like a smart move. Apple is doing all their stuff in house and iCloud and other services are having seemingly more outages than other offerings. Samsung is likely going to build a PASS offering with this but probably use it mostly internally to power / house their own apps and save money from having to pay for AWS
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oh yes that's correct, thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't looked at nodejs for a while but I do remember hearing they got their own foundation.
i'm very curious if we will ever know what they paid. Samsung being public maybe it will be in a public filing somewhere.
Friend and me were going back in forth in e-mails...funny you say that, he said almost the IDENTICAL thing word for word. LOL
It is important for the Illumos community for the independence. What is hopeful is that now with Samsung as Joyents largest "customer" that Joyent might be able to leverage that relationship with Vendors in order to be able to get more device drivers written for Illumos. Given the Sun diaspora currently at Joyent it is hopeful that they made the right demands for independence.