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Feb. 8, 2010

Barely two weeks after the EU has given Oracle the green light to acquire Sun Microsystems, the database giant is cancelling access to its Project Kenai, which was developed by Sun Microsystems as an open source project-hosting platform.

"Project Kenai will be discontinued for public use", an Oracle blog post said.

"However, Oracle will still continue to use it internally and look for ways that our customers and partners can take advantage of it," the Oracle post said.

Now external users must move elsewhere as Oracle consolidates its project hosting sites from both companies. Apr. 2nd is the actuall deadline to make the move, the company stated.

Oracle's phasing-out is being done to consolidate project-hosting endeavours, according to the Project Kenai Team in a posting about the future of Kenai.

"Minimizing the number of current project-hosting sites is a start in this direction," the team said.

"The complete shutdown of the website and the removal of the domain will be completed in the next 60 days. This should provide ample time for all projects to be moved to a new home of the project owners choice," the Kenai team said.

"Any projects that remain after the sixty day trial limit will be removed when the site is turned off," the team said.

At the Kenai beta website, Oracle users were advised to move to migrating repositories and their content to other locations on the Web.

"While it has come time to close the domain Kenai.com, the infrastructure, which is already used under Netbeans.org will still live on to support other domains in the future," the Kenai team said.

Oracle also added that the combination of the OTN (Oracle Technology Network), the Sun BigAdmin system administration portal and the Sun Developer Network, which includes the java.sun.com Web site should be more than enough resources to provide its customers and partners ample support of the project.

This combination will "result in the largest and most diverse community of developers, database administrators, sysadmins and architects," Oracle said.

Overall, the Sun Developer Network and the BigAdmin Project will remain in their current state, at least for now, Oracle said.

The company is planning an integration of these sites into a redesigned and re-architected OTN, however.

But the database giant didn't offer any launch dates for now.

Additionally, the company also plans to continue to offer certifications for Sun technologies including Java, SPARC, Solaris and MySQL as part of the Oracle University program.

Last week, Oracle described some very ambitious plans for its newly acquired Sun Microsystems server and IT company.

Source: Tech Blog.

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