A thought for Sun & Oracle

[sarose]

I thought that IBM just not good pair. I thought, Sun will stands
continue for next quarter. After all who want to see it being
eradicated, demised and assimilated. It has awesome legacy but do
that matter when it comes about profit? Indeed, Not.

If they could wait for at least next loss quarter, It could have been
a complete debacle. (Sun stock took a nosedive when IBM talk failed).

Look guys, how big company like Sun were secretly strangling in the
flimsiest safety net. It turn out to be true that Sun was on verge
of bankruptcy. Oracle saved it. Now, I wanna see Jonathan ponytail
got cut. Who cares here though? But … yes FOSS cares few!

MySQL: Two lions cannot share one den
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MySQL is Oracle’s Achilles’ heel. I am sure Larry got a nice sleep
that night.

The best thing we can hope from Larry is donate this shits to some
foundation (Apache, Eclipse…), I know Oracle bought InnoDB, and still
attach with MySQL. Falcon is far far away to replace InnoDB. Now who
knew that MySQL fate lies on Oracle hands.

The worse from Oracle, Just keep it as it is. Cut down development
cost and keep floating. Monty says he is stilling willing support
Oracle.

The problem started much earlier in Sun’s MySQL division. Most of the
core ppl have left Sun (started, when Monty resigned due to MySQL 5.1
release). If you read Monty blogs, he seems busy catching big
dolphins jumping out from Sun.

NetBeans
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Though, I am not IDE aficionado but NetBeans matter a lot for the
community.

Here is a doubt, Oracle JDeveloper based on JBuilder & there is easy
way to dive into Eclipse because daddy JBuilder has already been
through this transition pretty smoothly. However there are some
possibility that Oracle may take NetBeans as their next official IDE
but chances are gleam. Mr. Larry, who is better known for squeezing
single penny out of every deal will possibly re-think about the
further investment on NetBeans just beacuse JDeveloper is working so
fine with them.

The best I wished, Larry donate it to Eclipse as He did with with
Toplink.

JavaFX : The beginning of the End
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Touted with breathtaking RIA in Java. Next to Flex & Siliverlight.
Just a year back, I saw a beta release. And on March,09, I saw its not
so matisse-like interface but promising. It got, what not? a full
fledge fund, core resources from Swing team, consolidate Swing fiscal
budget. Finally, The output we saw out to be the burned fried toast.

Oracle has no good track record of front-end rich UI apps. I doubt a
lot on JavaFX future. I donot recommend any guys doing JavaFX until
Oracle commits seriously.. May be Larry has some other acquisition
list …who know Adobe next?

OpenOffice
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OpenOffice is another big bunch of products. Sun carried till its
doom day. OpenOffice is huge and bloated with really big performance
issue. I hope to see some serious attempt from Oracle. Again, Larry
has no firm commitment on it and We have to keep eyes the way Oracle
follow its original roadmap. Next big things, see KOffice and other
cool product.

Java
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I call the only things the deal made Oracle happy. The Java,. But
still resource collides, JRocket came along with BEA acquisition last
year. Oracle may have tough time to consolidate two JVM division. Time
will tell whether Oracle will be a better steward of Java than Sun has
been.

More to see, Oracle flexibility towards JCP and most important is
long standing dispute between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun
over the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK), specifically it’s licensing.
There are few number of mismatch thought the way JCP is driving
against OSGi and other few specs. I hope to see there some changes
since Oracle is favoring OSGi.

Sun had a great set of principles towards OpenSource Communities. Now
its time to wait & see how Oracle will allows Sun folks to flourish
inside its gigantic enterprise. Will the same MySQL story repeats
again or the two different world floursh together?

I have a thought for a OpenSource today. No matter the project are
driven with GPL or any friendly OSS license. I just wanna quote that A
true OSS means not controlled by any single company, but has a global
community of developers and companies to develop it. Please think
twice before you choose the product like MySQL, which core values lies
on GPL but its steward may turn it upside down. Choose PostgreSQL,
Nobody can buy it. Nobody can control it.

I wish if some elite member here could pour some thought on this deal
and how it can effect the community there.