If they kill MySQL and Glassfish, they'll lose people to postgres (or a community MySQL fork[1]) and Tomcat. At which point they've pissed off potential clients, lost mind/market share, and bolstered their competition, all for no gain. MySQL and Glassfish round out the Oracle product line nicely, so I bet we see them continue moving on as before, albeit with a gradually increasing Oracle/BEA-ish dialect. MySQL Enterprise may well die, as it's in more direct competition with Oracle, and I'm not sure how much of a cash cow it actually is -- we'll see.
I had little hope for JavaFX into the future even before this purchase. Sure, JavaFX has huge hype now, but so did applets once upon a time, and when even the demos don't run without permission prompts and other security warnings, that doesn't bode well (see WebDevRadio's JavaFX review for more). More than anything else, though, I doubt Oracle wants to be anywhere near the RIA business -- they've got no corporate background in it and are fighting an uphill battle against Adobe. At *best*, JavaFX will get completely open sourced and effectively spun off. More likely, it goes the way of applets, as yet another vestigial technology clinging to the Sun/Oracle JDK. [1] Remember that there's FOSS MySQL which has been GPLed, and therefore is beyond Oracle's ability to kill in any real sense. The best they can do is stop supporting it. Note that postgres has survived just fine with a smaller community and no direct corporate ownership -- I'm sure MySQL would be in the same position of Oracle decides they hate it. And I'm sure Oracle realizes that. ~~ Robert. [email protected] wrote: > Not to be cynical but I believe Oracle wants to kill MySQL. They did > in fact just do that if they wanted to. Now the other products. > > Netbeans - Killed. Convert people to Jdeveloper but this will take > some time. No more effort will be put in to Netbeans. Sucks for me > but I believe this will happen. Jdeveloper will get better because of > this. > > Glassfish - Killed. They bought BEA for a reason. They don't want a > low end application server around. They may not totally kill it but > it will not get the development Sun put behind it. > > Solaris - Slow death or migration of all technology over to Linux > (Oracles version of RedHat, and probably ONLY in their version of > Linux. > > Sparc - Possibly killed, but I could also see Oracle somewhat pushing > this with their own software much like IBM does. This is probably up > in the air at the moment. Yes quite a few people spend a ton of money > on Sun hardware and from what I hear it is good, but Linux on X86 has > been and will continue to eat away at this market. > > Java - Supported and maintained about as well as it is now. I don't > expect a lot to change here for the core language. > > JavaFX - Killed. I expect their focus to be ADF or whatever JSF > components Oracle likes. I hope I am wrong and Oracle comes out with > a killer WYSIWYG GUI for JavaFX. > > MySQL - Mentioned above but killed as best they can. > > In my opinion it "only" cost Larry around 3 to 4 Billion to kill or > nearly kill MySQL. By my simple math Sun has around 3 billion in the > bank and they were bought for 7. So if you consider that they now > control Java and have a bunch of "new" customers this was an easy > buy. > > > > On Apr 20, 7:53 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. > > > -- ~~ Robert Fischer. Grails Training http://GroovyMag.com/training Smokejumper Consulting http://SmokejumperIT.com Enfranchised Mind Blog http://EnfranchisedMind.com/blog Check out my book, "Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL"! http://www.smokejumperit.com/redirect.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
