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Just curious - does anyone know whether Oracle will continue to support development of the Fortress PL at Sun?

By mzraly at 2009-05-08 04:34 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 1507 reads

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well...

It's government funded. As far as I know, Eric Allen and his team have zero accountability to Sun's board.

Why don't you just e-mail Eric asking for a public comment on the status of Fortress, though?

By Z-Bo at Fri, 2009-05-08 06:03 | login or register to post comments

no longer true

Sun did not receive Phase III of the DARPA HPCS contract. After the end of Phase II, the rest of the Sun HPCS effort was folded into their regular product groups, but Fortress was maintained as a Sun Labs project.

I expect there is no objective fact of the matter at this point as to whether it will be maintained (see Oracle's recent confusion about SPARC, a much larger product).

Also, Guy Steele heads up the Fortress effort (the real structure of the group is difficult to describe in a comment box).

[A former intern in the Fortress project]

By Sam Tobin-Hochstadt at Fri, 2009-05-08 15:20 | login or register to post comments