I was reading a blog post about what will happen now that Oracle has purchased Sun. The poster repeated a number of fallacies that I’ve seen around the web.
1. MySQL is dead now.
MySQL is dead? No its not. Oracle has owned InnoDB and never once used it against MySQL users. They own [...]
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Don’t misunderstand Oracle’s purchase of Sun
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
Tags:Eclipse·GlassFish·IBM·Java·JDeveloper·MySQL·NetBeans·OpenSolaris·Oracle·Solaris·SPARC·Sun
What does an Oracle acquisition of Sun mean?
April 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Java
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. [...]
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
Clueless
March 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Computing
I am often stunned by the lack of understanding in comments and opinions on the web. Here’s today’s example, culled from reactions to the possibility that IBM could acquire Sun:
Sun should stay independent. The only way Sun can retain the integrity of it’s research and vision, along with freedom to improvise would be without any [...]
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 and Cloud Computing
March 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Java
Tim Bray, one of the moving forces behind XML wrote a blog entry about his work on cloud computing at Sun. It has lots of interesting information in it:
Sun is working on an open specification for creating, administrating and controlling cloud resources
Sun is implementing Amazon S3 interfaces
Sun is morphing the Q-Layer software [...]
