[osol-discuss] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!

I can't believe this is real:

http://commodoretoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/oracle-open-sources-amiga-os-desktop.html

It is VERY cool though. Two thumbs up to Larry Ellison and McNealy and co.

Basic summary is this:  

 (1) Oracle buys AmigaOS and releases a press statement where they claim that 
the "reasons for obtaining the AmigaOS were for technologies to integrate into 
their own Solaris server OS, not to continue development of a desktop OS."

 (2) Oracle open-sources AmigaOS and releases the source code to a crowd of 
enthusiastic long-in-the-tooth Amiga die-hards who still want to continue 
development of AmigaOS as an open source community outside of Oracle.

What do you guys think about this? Anybody have any guesses or ideas as to what 
AmigaOS technologies might be integrated into Solaris? 

On a different note: I always thought Sun probably should have acquired SGI 
IRIX many, many years ago and merged it with Solaris.  It would have made sense 
to do this back in the late 1990's or very early 2000's since a lot of the 
Hollywood film studios were using SGI IRIX to do the modeling, animation, 
shading , lighting, etc. for their films, and then after the IRIX machines had 
done their job, the footage would get passed on to a massive cluster of Solaris 
SPARC servers that would act as a "rendering farm" that would take the hundreds 
of thousands of individual frames and render them into the actual film. 

It seems like it's much too late for it to be financially worthwhile to merge 
IRIX and Solaris now though, as I'm guessing most of those Hollywood film 
studios have already dumped all their SGI boxes and now use a mix of Mac OS X 
and Linux, am I right?
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