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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
