Not to be cynical but I believe Oracle wants to kill MySQL. They did in fact just do that if they wanted to. Now the other products.
Netbeans - Killed. Convert people to Jdeveloper but this will take some time. No more effort will be put in to Netbeans. Sucks for me but I believe this will happen. Jdeveloper will get better because of this. Glassfish - Killed. They bought BEA for a reason. They don't want a low end application server around. They may not totally kill it but it will not get the development Sun put behind it. Solaris - Slow death or migration of all technology over to Linux (Oracles version of RedHat, and probably ONLY in their version of Linux. Sparc - Possibly killed, but I could also see Oracle somewhat pushing this with their own software much like IBM does. This is probably up in the air at the moment. Yes quite a few people spend a ton of money on Sun hardware and from what I hear it is good, but Linux on X86 has been and will continue to eat away at this market. Java - Supported and maintained about as well as it is now. I don't expect a lot to change here for the core language. JavaFX - Killed. I expect their focus to be ADF or whatever JSF components Oracle likes. I hope I am wrong and Oracle comes out with a killer WYSIWYG GUI for JavaFX. MySQL - Mentioned above but killed as best they can. In my opinion it "only" cost Larry around 3 to 4 Billion to kill or nearly kill MySQL. By my simple math Sun has around 3 billion in the bank and they were bought for 7. So if you consider that they now control Java and have a bunch of "new" customers this was an easy buy. On Apr 20, 7:53 am, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > 7.4 billion.. > > http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp > > Whose ready for Java 1.6.0.0.0.0.0.14? > > ...and then Buffy staked Edward. The End. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
