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Netstat -vat by Sean Michael Kerner (bio)

A command line view of IT



Oracle Owns Sun - What's Next for Open Source, Java?

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From the 'Finally' files:

The long wait for Sun employees and customers is over as Oracle today officially announced that it has finally completed the acquisition of Sun. (My colleagues at InternetNews.com will be covering the full-day event at Oracle, so be sure to check that out).

With the acquisition now will come word on the fate of Solaris, Java and Sun's other open source efforts.  With Java in particular, over the last six months I've spoke with many Java stakeholders and there is a general trend in their opinions.

Java MUST remain open and Oracle must make the Java Community Process (JCP) more open than it was under Sun.

The JCP has kinda/sorta been an open process to date, but Sun has always held the master card.

While I suspect that Oracle will continue to pledge an open Java community, I highly doubt that Oracle will give up their controlling interest in the Java community. That said, I expect that Oracle will make some changes to at least give the perception of improved openness and willingness to work as part of the whole Java ecosystem.

With MySQL, after all the grief that Oracle took from the EU, I suspect that Oracle will simply pledge to continue to support and develop the open source database. After all, MySQL is a $1 billion asset for Oracle that can and will yield present and future returns for Oracle and its shareholders.

Same goes for Solaris. As Oracle has long had a working relationship with the UNIX operating system and there are many global customers that will continue to remain customers. Solaris 11 will come out under Oracle's  leadership and it will be just another option next to Oracle's Enterprise Linux giving customers a choice.

The real challenge will come to Oracle's new combined salesforce. It will be interesting to see how compensation and incentives will be meshed to push one technology over the other and if in fact there will be a combined salesforce.  Other big companies like IBM and HP have a similar dilemma pushing  both open source and proprietary applications -- so Oracle's challenge is not a unique one.

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Rickster said:

What about OpenSolaris ?
Does that mean we finally get some "useable" Multimedia applications bundled FREELY, with future OpenSolaris releases ? aka -a "real" Desktop.
:P
...and I ain't talkin' 'bout Sun/Oracle Enterprise Solaris Server's.
I'm talkin' 'bout the existing FREE OpenSolaris desktop OS from Sun.

Will Oracle/Sun guide this OS to be a decent-desktop-alternative for the home user, like linux, or freebsd ?
Or is this OS goin' the DODO bird way, like sco, hpux, aix, rhel, ... ?!
-stick a fedora in that Oracle.



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