OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21722/Red_Hat_CEO_Calls_on_Oracle_to_Keep_Java_Open Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 18:51:00 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Is there really... http://www.osnews.com/thread?370278 http://www.osnews.com/thread?370278 ...any reason to believe they wouldn't? I can't be certain, but I believe they would probably just follow a "support" model to try and make some income from it. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments Confirm http://www.osnews.com/thread?370283 http://www.osnews.com/thread?370283 Its not so much "don't believe they will keep it open" as it is confirming that they will. When there are takeovers, such things may happen, so its better to just get a confirmation before investing to heavily into it.

However, they can just fork the current opensource version...oh wait...they did! ;) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (J.R.) Comments Comment by sbergman27 http://www.osnews.com/thread?370286 http://www.osnews.com/thread?370286
"Frankly, we haven't seen a material OpenSolaris customer base in the enterprise," Whitehurst said. "So it's not been a significant market factor to date, and we'll obviously continue to watch it going forward, but most of our customers are still focused on getting off of Solaris and going all the way to Linux,

Wow. Customers of a company which pushes Linux exclusively tend to be more interested in moving to Linux than to OpenSolaris. I wonder if there might just be a bit of selection bias there.

I'm a Linux guy. But I consider myself to be a member of the Linux-alike community ahead of any particular subcommunity. And seeing Red Hat join the decades-long POSIX posture-and-jab-fest makes me vaguely nauseous.

Just cool it, Whitehurst, before people start mistaking you for Jim Zemlin.Edited 2009-06-25 18:27 UTC Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments Big Players http://www.osnews.com/thread?370324 http://www.osnews.com/thread?370324 I think IBM, Red Hat and the Java community have too much to lose to let Oracle co-opt Java. If Oracle did take over, the community would end up using the nuclear option - forking java.

I hope Oracle drops JDeveloper in favor of Netbeans (or making their own modules for it). Netbeans isn't that great, but at least turning off modules cuts down on the bloat. My experiences with JDeveloper have been horrible (forced to use it for a class on SQL and Oracle reports and forms). Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (waid0004) Comments