My bets are on Oracle turning the Solaris dev team into a Linux dev team in the long term and rolling any useful stuff from Solaris into Linux. One less platform for them to support makes sense in so many ways. Al.
--- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Grott Sent: 20 April 2009 15:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Java is to get a new owner I think Solaris stays around..I think MySQL gets opened up via full forking now however.. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:12 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: On Apr 20, 5:48 am, pod <[email protected]> wrote: > But Android only use the language. > Android SDK doesn't use Java compilation or Java VM. > > So it's ok for us. We only use the syntax, not the technology. It is significant nonetheless. Going forward, Oracle will set the tone where things are heading. Nothing earth shattering in SE for years to come, I suppose. It's going to be interesting to see what's happening to Solaris and Sun HW. Firm specific Unixes have been weeded out over the years so over the long run it may go the route of SINIX and Ultrix as Oracle could see no sense in keeping it around when Oracle's products run on Linux and commodity servers just fine. There is a specialty niche in comms that relies on Sun/Solaris but that might be too small to sustain a dedicated HW/SW line in the long run. Let's hope not. Client of mine just ordered a comms system that's built on that equipment and isn't going to even see a box for months (while we go through design)... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
