[Malvern] Well, that's it for Sun Microsystems.

[Paul Potter]

I'm wondering about the hardware too. I'm getting a great old Ultra5.

2009/4/21 Ian Pascoe <ianpascoe at btinternet.com>:
> Don't forget that Oracle has it's own offerings in the Open Source arena,
> and Open Office and MySQL will nicely dove tail into that.
>
> I personally think the more interesting aspect to this buy out will be what
> happens to sun's hardware arm - they've a good reputation for their multi
> core servers and Spark processors, and of course let's not forget Java!
>
> I've nothing against IBM, as they do stirling FOS work, but from experience
> with dealing with them at work I'm always a little on edge.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Stuart "Sslaxx"
> Moore
> Sent: 21 April 2009 16:52
> To: Paul Potter
> Cc: Malvern LUG; Geoff Bagley
> Subject: Re: [Malvern] Well, that's it for Sun Microsystems.
>
>
> Paul Potter wrote:
>> Interesting thinking.
>>
>> 2009/4/21 Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com>:
>>> There's always the hope that someone will write a FOSS equivalent ( e.g
> like
>>> Open Office is to MS Office etc.)
>
> MySQL is under the terms of the GPL. Even if Oracle did want to bury the
> commercial version of the software, someone could always fork it and
> carry on like nothing happened.
>
> Similarly with OpenOffice.org and VirtualBox. Even if Oracle were to go
> "these are non-core products and are to be discontinued with immediate
> effect", someone else could just take over the code and carry on. With
> OpenOffice.org, Novell would be in a prime position to take over as
> primary maintainer (due to their own existing fork).
>
> --
> Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore
> http://sslaxx.livejournal.com/
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