Oracle: Un-Publishes SPARC Solaris Roadmap?

Oracle: Un-Publishes SPARC Solaris Roadmap?

It has been the tradition of Oracle to maintain a public roadmap for the SPARC Solaris product line, since  the purchase of Sun Microsystems.

Normal

As of 2018, Oracle had been promoting a roadmap which illustrated a 2020 SPARC M8+.

 

Fujitsu Today

Fujitsu is still promoting, in 2019 on a roadmap, a new SPARC Server in 2020, as of Feb 25, 2019.

Oracle Today

The "Assets" link was previously available. The "Servers-Storage" link was also previously available. Today, they are no longer available. They had disappears, approximately in January 2019. Oracle's 2018 roadmap was available from  around May 25th.

It should be noted, Oracle's web site had gone through a re-design, with different base URL's now being available, so this could have just been an oversight.

Conclusions

Network Management had traditionally not listened to rumors in the industry, regarding layoffs, but had traditionally depended upon hard evidence such as documents, hiring announcements, code releases, etc. There is a degree of concern, in the industry, what Oracle intends on doing with SPARC & Solaris. Oracle continues to release updates for hardware management software, like OpsCenter, and Fujitsu appears to be holding on to it's roadmap.