On September 2, 2017, Simon Phipps, a former Sun Microsystems employee not hired by Oracle in the acquisition, reported on Twitter that Oracle had laid off the Solaris core development staff, which many interpreted as sign that Oracle no longer intended to support future development of the platform. While Oracle did have a large layoff of Solaris development engineering staff, development continued and Solaris 11.4 was released in 2018.
On September 2 2017 Simon Phipps a former Sun Microsystems employee not hired by Oracle in the acquisition reported on Twitter that Oracle had laid off the Solaris core development staff which many interpreted as sign that Oracle no longer intended to support future development of the platform While Oracle did have a large layoff of Solaris development engineering staff development continued and Solaris 114 was released in 2018