My two cents: http://zwadia.com/?p=91
Cheers, Zubin. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Arash Rajaeeyan <[email protected] > wrote: > Oracle is a bigger competitor for IBM, has a more aggressive strategy and > much less committed to open source,for example they have promised to open > source Oracle ADF RC for nearly two years, (Apache RCF) but you can't see > any progress. > now Oracle will have the most complete software stack even more complete > than Microsoft! > although MySQL was very popular but it was not a direct competitor of DB2 > (But Oracle is) > and Solaris and AIX had their own customers, Sparc and Power platform had > their own market share two, > but now with popularity of Oracle DB, Oracle can boost Sparc and Solaris > sale, and get more market share from IBM. > in software market because of Strong position of Oracle, they may need less > commitment to open source and open standards. > cheers > Arash > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Alan Hancock <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What would IBM move to? Why would Java be any different with Oracle from >> IBM's perspective? >> >> >> -Alan via iPhone >> >> On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Arash Rajaeeyan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I may be a little bad for some sun products, but in whole it would be >> great for java vs .net platformOracle is second largest software vendor. >> I am afraid this may cause other companies like IBM to move away from Java >> platform >> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Werner Punz < <[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone I just read at the german Heise site that Oracle has >>> bought Sun for 7.4 billion dollars. >>> >>> I wonder what the implications in the long run will be. >>> >>> My personal thought is that it might finally become possible that the RI >>> and MyFaces can merge... >>> >>> Java: Probably business as usual but maybe it will become more open! >>> >>> OpenOffice will probably be maintained with the business as usual. >>> >>> Same goes for OpenSolaris/Solaris >>> >>> But I see a rather black future for Netbeans and MySQL... >>> (I would be sad if Netbeans would go away the IDE is simply excellent) >>> >>> Also the proposed IceFaces merger as base for a future JSF-Sun component >>> set might be now dead in the light of Oracle having already something in >>> their portfolio! >>> >>> As for the Sun hardware division that is a big question, but I personally >>> guess Oracle will try to keep it alive and make it a cash cow again! >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Arash Rajaeeyan >> >> > > > -- > Arash Rajaeeyan >
