Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 5th Jun 2009 13:29 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Oracle was the first top-tier IT vendor to announce it was putting its key product - the database - on Linux. The logic was simple: Linux freed Oracle from depending on a single company for operating system - that company was Microsoft. Taking the baton from Sun Microsystems' co-founder and chairman Scott McNealy at JavaOne this week, Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison has seen his opportunity for independence again. This time, however, he may struggle to get his way, and - in trying - actually hurt one of Sun's most prized and widely adopted open-source projects.
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2006-09-27
It's good to hear, but the licensing problem remains. I don't know whether JavaFX competes with AJAX or, as you said, "is the new Swing", but neither AJAX nor Swing have those licensing problems, AFAIK. From the get-go, there should be a clean separation between the free and opens source JavaFX core and whatever proprietary codecs, plugins, backends, whatever, are supported, so that neither FOSS developers nor purist FOSS users need to license any of those.