Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 11:53 UTC, submitted by tsedlmeyer
We've been debating the merits of a possible IBM-Sun deal for a while now, and even Sun itself seemed to be in the dark as to if it would be a good idea to be bought by IBM. These debates are now all moot: in a surprise move (at least, I didn't see any speculation about it) Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems, at USD 9.50 a share, which equates to a total of 7.4 billion USD. The news got out through a press release.
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RE[5]: Read about this the other day....
by kaiwai on Tue 21st Apr 2009 12:45
in reply to "RE[4]: Read about this the other day...."
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With the purchase from Oracle of Sun, I wonder what will become of Java and will it continue to be an open platform supported by Oracle/Sun? Sun has so much you have to beg the question What Oracle will prop up and support, what will be converted to internal use only and what stays marketable and what will go away? I beleive this will have far reaching impacts than anyone recognizes and companies that rely on Java like Novell and others could be impacted. Sun uses much of the Unix code that Novell once owned. Now what? and will this be a re-birth of Sun so to speak to the benefit of Orachle or will Oracle strip mine the company and toss it away.
Just a couple of points:
1) Sun's implementation of Java is fully open sourced with the stuff that were not able to be opensourced are being replaced with opensource replacements.
2) Sun doesn't control Java - that is the biggest lie made by people on osnews.com - JCP control Java and NOT Sun. The only thing that this purchase will give Oracle is an extra seat at the table which hopefully should mean that things will move quicker through the pipe line.
I wish people would stop lying - there is no need to falsify things; either stick to the truth or don't post at all.
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2009-04-21
With the purchase from Oracle of Sun, I wonder what will become of Java and will it continue to be an open platform supported by Oracle/Sun? Sun has so much you have to beg the question What Oracle will prop up and support, what will be converted to internal use only and what stays marketable and what will go away? I beleive this will have far reaching impacts than anyone recognizes and companies that rely on Java like Novell and others could be impacted. Sun uses much of the Unix code that Novell once owned. Now what? and will this be a re-birth of Sun so to speak to the benefit of Orachle or will Oracle strip mine the company and toss it away.