Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-18 Thread jitesh dundas
Honestly, I foresee the integration of Java with other suits of Oracle products... Logic is simple, profits... Sun might have made mistakes but surely there were some good points too.. I am just concerned that Oracle ,with time as profits start coming in, change its strategy and hurt the community

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-18 Thread Jess Holle
On 8/17/2010 9:28 PM, Sean Comerford wrote: The big thing I keep seeing in all this "concern about Oracle" is that people continually forget or ignore WHY Sun and Java is now owned by Oracle: Sun focused on the wrong things (including being OVERLY concerned with the community) which led to the

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread work only
was MS i think On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Miroslav Pokorny < miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which company did they sue for similar grounds ? Given that Sun was > looking for a buyer, and that included Google, IBM and at the end Oracle it > would be a bit hard for them to sue G over A

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread Miroslav Pokorny
Which company did they sue for similar grounds ? Given that Sun was looking for a buyer, and that included Google, IBM and at the end Oracle it would be a bit hard for them to sue G over Android that would be madness... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
The microsoft case was a bit different. They implemented their own incompatible version of java claiming it was java. Google never called android java - not to consumers nor developers. On Aug 17, 2010 11:28 PM, "Sean Comerford" wrote: The big thing I keep seeing in all this "concern about Oracle

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread Sean Comerford
The big thing I keep seeing in all this "concern about Oracle" is that people continually forget or ignore WHY Sun and Java is now owned by Oracle: Sun focused on the wrong things (including being OVERLY concerned with the community) which led to them losing money year after year after year basical

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/17/10 23:14 , Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been talking to people in Oracle that are very concerned about > all the wild speculation that has been running through the > community. And while I can't give details, I can say they feel that > the c

[The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread Kirk
Hi all, I've been talking to people in Oracle that are very concerned about all the wild speculation that has been running through the community. And while I can't give details, I can say they feel that the conclusions don't match what they are doing however they are also still not in a positio