I may be a little bad for some sun products, but in whole it would be great for java vs .net platformOracle is second largest software vendor. I am afraid this may cause other companies like IBM to move away from Java platform
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone I just read at the german Heise site that Oracle has bought > Sun for 7.4 billion dollars. > > I wonder what the implications in the long run will be. > > My personal thought is that it might finally become possible that the RI > and MyFaces can merge... > > Java: Probably business as usual but maybe it will become more open! > > OpenOffice will probably be maintained with the business as usual. > > Same goes for OpenSolaris/Solaris > > But I see a rather black future for Netbeans and MySQL... > (I would be sad if Netbeans would go away the IDE is simply excellent) > > Also the proposed IceFaces merger as base for a future JSF-Sun component > set might be now dead in the light of Oracle having already something in > their portfolio! > > As for the Sun hardware division that is a big question, but I personally > guess Oracle will try to keep it alive and make it a cash cow again! > > -- Arash Rajaeeyan
