OT: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Werner Punz
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

Re: OT: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Arash Rajaeeyan
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

Re: OT: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Alan Hancock
What would IBM move to? Why would Java be any different with Oracle from IBM's perspective? -Alan via iPhone On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Arash Rajaeeyan arash.rajaee...@gmail.com wrote: I may be a little bad for some sun products, but in whole it would be great for java vs .net

Re: OT: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Arash Rajaeeyan
Oracle is a bigger competitor for IBM, has a more aggressive strategy and much less committed to open source,for example they have promised to open source Oracle ADF RC for nearly two years, (Apache RCF) but you can't see any progress. now Oracle will have the most complete software stack even

Re: OT: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Zubin Wadia
My two cents: http://zwadia.com/?p=91 Cheers, Zubin. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Arash Rajaeeyan arash.rajaee...@gmail.com wrote: Oracle is a bigger competitor for IBM, has a more aggressive strategy and much less committed to open source,for example they have promised to open