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
Enterprise Architecture in a Web 2.0 World
April 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Web
There’s something very curious to me. While standard thinking is that you need to use “enterprise quality” languages to scale to large loads, the reality is that big Web 2.0 sites scale much, much larger then most enterprise apps and use scripting languages to do it.
So does that mean that “enterprise quality” is a bunch [...]
Tags:Architecture·MySQL·PHP·Python·Ruby·SOAP·Web·Web 2.0·XML
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 [...]
