Oracle buys Sun!

[Stephen]

seeing ZFS and dtrace in the Linux world would be amazing..

but seeing more of the linux world in opensolaris would be equally amazing...

and having a full UNIX server to build an optimized oracle for would
be interesting to.

the mind spins with geeky dreams

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Al Tobey <tobert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:52 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun.  This is not a drill.  How
>> is this going to play out for Java and MySQL?
>
> I've been quite fond of OpenSolaris lately.    What I really hope they
> do is license ZFS and Dtrace for GPLv2 so Linux can use them.  They
> did mention Solaris a bit in the press releases, so it is a major part
> of the deal.    It's not a bad OS and is open source.    If they
> license it GPLv2, everybody will win in the end.   Solaris will get to
> borrow drivers from Linux and Linux will get ZFS and Dtrace.
>
> As for Java, just look at the nightmare that is OAS (Oracle
> Application Server).    Hopefully they'll fire that entire unit (sans
> the guys responsible for TopLink) and replace it with Glassfish.   If
> they try to use their own Java people, it'll be a mess and Java will
> suffer.   That much is proven by their track record with OAS.
>
> I think MySQL will live on but its name will change to one of the
> forks like Drizzle or the other bit one whose name I forget.    Then
> again, maybe they'll start adding PL/SQL and other goodies to MySQL
> and evolve it into a kind of gateway drug to Oracle, which would be
> just fine with me.  I'd love to be able to do full Oracle SQL and
> PL/SQL in MySQL and scale up to full Oracle later on.   Almost nobody
> writes straight to the C API's any more so it's feasible.
>
> Anyways, those are my fanboi dreams for this deal.   I really look
> forward to seeing how this plays out.   It's definitely going to be
> more interesting and less scary than the IBM deal would have been.
>
> -Al Tobey
>
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