On May 13, 10:56 am, Sean Comerford <sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whatever happens, I think we're all better off with Oracle buying Sun than > IBM... an IBM acquisition would have been a complete blood bath for the Sun > tech + employees I'd say. Something like Glassfish has at least some small > chance of surviving at Oracle... no way IBM would have let it compete with > their crappy cash cow Websphere.
I think your logic is flawed - following your thinking, Oracle needs to kill MySQL and Glassfish immediately because they compete with their cash cows Oracle DB and Oracle Application Server (formerly BEA Weblogic). I think Oracle will position MySQL / Glassfish as the "entry level web software" and have their DB / App Server as the "enterprise systems" (IBM does that with Apache Geronimo vs. WebSphere). This probably means that MySQL / Glassfish will not get a lot more "enterprise features" to keep the differentiation intact. For MySQL, Oracle already hinted at that positioning - at the MySQL user conference last month, Ken Jacbos, vice president of product strategy in Oracle's server technologies division, said that " MySQL had 'done a fabulous job of capitalizing web application development' while Oracle had 'done a fabulous job' in the enterprise and running packaged applications" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/22/ oracle_jacbos_mysql/page2.html). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
