I'm actually worried about OpenOffice - the one interesting bastion against MS Office.
What do you think might happen here? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ramakrishna Reddy <ramkr...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Biju Chacko <biju.cha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/companies/21sun.html?ref=business > > > > Well ... what to the Sun and ex-Sun folks on the list think of this? > > Oracle hasn't done bad in the past few years on Linux. Their > contributions to the kernel have been pretty active. I'm more > concerned on the vast patent portfolio Sun has. Hopefully they do not > see anything capitalistic out of it and open it up ;-). But how much > of the patent portfolio does matter in this kinda acquisition ? > > regards > -- > Ramakrishna Reddy GPG > Key ID:31FF0090 > Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090 > >
