Oracle is revamping its Solaris operating system. The company is naming the new version as Common Build Environment (CBE).
Since 2009, Solaris has been owned by Oracle. That was the direct result of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
The Solaris operating system is getting a new version from Oracle. It is Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE. The CBE builds are akin to a beta version. In other words, the version contains prelease builds of the new version of Solaris.
Target audience are free users
Darren Moffat, senior software engineer at Oracle, gives a further word on the usefulness of the additional version. Solaris, in fact, has a free version, in which testing and development can be done. Except that the free version is not always up-to-date. The CBE should ensure that free users do always get up to speed with the latest repository updates.
The CBE just won’t always have the latest code. CBE users will have to wait much longer for these updates to be available, since Oracle uses a different update cadence and thus does not offer updates monthly or constantly.
2034 end date
Oracle promises support for its operating system until 2034. Fujitsu previously announced that it will depreciate its mainframes by 2030. Moreover, 2029 will be the last year Fujitsu makes Solaris-capable SPARC servers.