If Java slips that might put Flex in place to become the next big language.  ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Al Tobey wrote: From: Al Tobey Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun! To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:36 PM On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:52 AM, James Mcphee 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 > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss