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Not really.

Some were ported to Intel. Others (HP/UX) became dedicated big iron operating systems. HP/UX and Solaris are still being updated and used.



Solaris is gone[1]. Illumos a fork of OpenSolaris still lives on however.

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/04/oracle_layoffs_sola...


> Solaris is gone

Solaris isn't dead. Oracle released version 11.4 in August this year: https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-released...

The article you linked to doesn't say Solaris is gone either. It mentions large numbers of layoffs, but acknowledges that there is still a Solaris dev team in place (even if a significantly smaller one).

(Disclosure: Former Oracle employee, although I never worked on Solaris.)




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