I’ve been asked by multiple people what I think of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. I’ve assembled my thoughts on the matter. I don’t have any particular insight, just a general experience with Oracle. And all of this is subject to the deal being completed sometime in the summer.
Oracle is now a hardware company. [...]
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What does an Oracle acquisition of Sun mean?
April 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Java
Tags:Dell·DTrace·GlassFish·IBM·Java·JDeveloper·MySQL·NetBeans·Oracle·Solaris·SPARC·Sun·WebLogic·ZFS
What I would like to see out of a Sun purchase
April 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · Java
I talked a little bit before about what I think would happen in a Sun purchase. But, if I could pick what I want to happen, it would be this:
IBM re-licenses OpenSolaris, DTrace, ZFS, NFS and Java under the GPL or BSD
It’s just a shame that good, useful technologies can’t be incorporated into Linux and [...]
Tags:DTrace·GlassFish·IBM·Java·NetBeans·Solaris·Sun·WebSphere·ZFS
What it means for IBM to buy Sun
March 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Java
There’s been a lot of talk about the purported acquisition of Sun by IBM. Now Computerworld is piping in with some interesting observations. The biggest piece of news is that IBM supposedly has no interest in the hardware portion of Sun’s business. According to Computerworld, IBM only wants the software assets. If true, that’s the [...]
Tags:DTrace·GlassFish·IBM·Java·MySQL·Solaris·SPARC·Sun·WebSphere·ZFS
Sun Microsystems
October 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Java
Sun Microsystems is experiencing some tough times. They’ve restructured every year for the last seven years. Their revenues just dropped 7%. And they’re forecasting a loss of 2 to 12 cents a share for the quarter. Now their largest shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, has increased their stake in Sun to [...]
