I'm curious what it means for Java and JavaFX though... On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Josh Juneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that there is a hefty product overlap. The only thing that we can > bank on is that Oracle will go forward with all of the products that we know > and love from Sun (Netbeans, Glassfish, etc) as they have been known to do > in past acquisitions. If you look at the Oracle BEA acquisition, they have > held true to the BEA product line and continued it's development. They > actually lean more towards using WebLogic for future plans as opposed to the > Oracle Application Server. Let's hope that Oracle just plans to add all of > the Sun product line to theirs and does not deprecate any of it... > > > Josh Juneau > [email protected] > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > http://www.gathereventplanning.com > Twitter ID: javajuneau > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Yeah it makes much more sense than IBM buying, although there's still >> a hefty product overlap, not just on the DBMS side. JDevelper vs. >> NetBeans, WebLogic vs. Glassfish, BTRFS vs. ZFS etc. etc. >> >> /Casper >> >> >> On 20 Apr., 14:01, Josh Juneau <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If anyone is going to purchase Sun, this does make sense...and I think >> it is >> > going to be good for Java. Oracle has been a huge advocate of Java >> > technologies. I'm not sure how it fares for MySQL, although in looking >> at >> > Oracle's past they will probably just continue to maintain MySQL as an >> > open-source database. >> > >> > Josh Juneau >> > [email protected]http://jj-blogger.blogspot.comhttp:// >> www.gathereventplanning.com >> > Twitter ID: javajuneau >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > 7.4 billion.. >> > >> > >http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp >> > >> > > Whose ready for Java 1.6.0.0.0.0.0.14? >> > >> > > ...and then Buffy staked Edward. The End. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
