Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 19:00 UTC
With today's surprise announcement that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems, several questions were raised as to some Sun products, including MySQL, Solaris, and OpenOffice.org. Browsing around the net, there are several viewpoints on the future of these Sun products, and the OpenOffice.org team has even issued a statement itself.
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Cannot for the life of me see MySQL remaining open source & cost free. It's instant revenue for Oracle. They will likely fork the code & enhance with proprietary extensions, then quietly go about up-selling to the 10 million or so existing MySQL users.
OpenOffice? What use has Oracle for an open office suite? Perhaps they will leave it alone as a PR exercise.
The Sparc is dead. Long live the Sparc! Oracle may have a use selling pre-built turnkey systems though...