meanwhile, i've been thinking of openofice, and the whole ODF and open-standards battle around it. gotta hand it to oracle. they *never* dreamt of making a foss suite like openoffice.org. sun did. now what will oracle do with it?
am also thinking of javafx. not oracle's core domain expertise area. but the battle for a viable flash alternative that brings a lot of interactivity and rich internet experience is paramount. on the other hand, i hope oracle gets inspired by its collection of software to start considering converting its model away from software licenses to services, thereby making oracle software foss. what about sun's hardware? all those storage, network, and other solutions? oracle is into selling software, and often they run their software on hardware from other vendors. i think oracle might lop off the hardware business, and throw it over the great wall of china, inspired by ibm's impressive move with lenovo. so let me see what else am i going to miss? ah yes, the mesmerizing sun logo. i'd shudder to see oracle's drab logo blanketing all things from the former sun. what else? oh my! will oracle be our partners for the next freed.in? regards niyam _______________________________________________ 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]/
