OpenSolaris fork to be announced
A month after Oracle announced that it would be no longer supporting the OpenSolaris project and concentrating its energies on Solaris 11, a group is set to announce a fork of the canned project.
Project OpenIndiana says it was conceived during the period after Oracle took over Sun Microsystems and uncertainty prevailed about the future of OpenSolaris, a community project that was begun by Sun in 2005 as a means to encourage developers outside the company to contribute to development.
The formal announcement of the launch of Project OpenIndiana will be made tomorrow (September 14, UK time), nicely timed to take place about a week ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld conference in the US.