On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> If Java slips that might put Flex in place to become the next big language.
? -jmz
>
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Al Tobey <tobert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Al Tobey <tobert@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun!
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:36 PM
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:52 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@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
>
>> --
>> 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
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 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
(text/plain)