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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2006-09-24
Ah, yes. But you miss one important detail. Unbreakable Linux, being essentially Red Hat Enterprise Linux re-branded, is still governed by the GPL. Now that they own Solaris outright, Oracle could potentially offer a closed-source that's very closely coupled with their database without the risk of having to disclose any of the code. Furthermore, Oracle really couldn't make any radical changes to Unbreakable Linux without breaking their compatibility with RHEL, which was kinda the whole point in the first place.
I'm not suggesting open source Solaris is going away; simply that Oracle may have some plans for building a much more tightly integrated platform than they ever could with Unbreakable Linux.
That said, I agree with many of the other posters here who suggest that Oracle's primary motive for the acquisition was greater control over the future of Java.