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
Dark Pastels theme for IntelliJ IDEA
February 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Java
I’ve been using the ported Vibrant Ink theme for IntelliJ IDEA for a while but got envious looking at the Dark Pastels theme for NetBeans. I took a few minutes to adjust the Vibrant Ink theme to match the color scheme in Dark Pastels. You can see the results here:
Unfortunately there’s no way to adjust [...]
