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

[Ian Pascoe]

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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