On Thursday 19 Mar 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: > the web is suddenly ablaze with IBM's talks for acquiring Sun. > no one seems to be talking about the impact on openoffice.org, odf,
If the M&A goes through, I think IBM will continue the support for whatever products Sun has open sourced. Rescinding on the support will be much bad publicity, at least from the FOSS community. IIRC, IBM was a strong supporter of ODF in the ODF v/s OOXML at the standards body. Perhaps under one management, IBM's Symphony suite (based on OOo) will be current with the OOo versions. > and sun's newer push into extending java further, especially with > stuff like javafx. Don't know much about javafx but my guess is that they will not change the set direction. I am wondering about Sun's DB portfolio - MySQL; they will have DB2, Informix, and MySQL. > the good news everyone's missing: it's not microsoft in talks to buy > sun. whew! they're too busy waiting to pick up yahoo for a > shammikapoor song in a meltdown? Aamen :) -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
