It makes me think of the Wizard Of Oz -- "There's no place like
home, ...."

Except in this case the witch from the East bought Kansas.



On Apr 20, 9:42 am, James Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just keep telling yourself...  "I'm so glad it wasn't Microsoft."  :)
>
> -James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Harlan
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:41 AM
> To: The Java Posse
> Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle to buy Sun MS
>
> This is awful; far worse than IBM. Oracle is great at leeching from
> the revenue streams of their customers; not a company you want
> responsible for the future of Java.
>
> As my co-worker said, this will be a true test of open source. I am
> very interested to hear responses from IBM, JBoss, Spring Source, etc.
> I remember a Posse episode a couple years back where the scenarios
> that would trigger a fork of Java were discussed -- I think we have
> one here.
>
> I also wonder how the Sun's "defensive" patents will be wielded by
> Oracle as well.
>
> On Apr 20, 4:53 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.
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