I am not saying you're wrong about the possible conflicts (and potential unfortunate outcomes) you list but I think it's better now than it might have been 15-20 years ago.
IMHO IBM has changed a lot for the better in that time period with open standards and open source. Remember when you couldn't use SCSI drives on IBM midrange computers? I think they turned the corner with the RS/6000, AIX, and Eclipse (just to pick some hardware, OS, and software as quick examples). It's been a while since they bought Informix and it's still around (not saying it will be indefinitely). It would be shame to kill the friendly Eclipse/NetBeans competition. :) We shall see... On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html > > Personally, it's probably good for 'Java', bad for everything else you > might like about the Sun software and hardware ecosystem. > > AIX v. Solaris > Power vs Sparc > Lotus Symphony vs OpenOffice > Websphere vs Glassfish > Eclipse vs Netbeans > DB2 vs MySQL > > and so on.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
