I disagree. Until the acquisition goes through, engineers at Sun will not get a firm commitment from Oracle that their job is safe. That includes mine, even though Larry made some public statements about JavaFX that are quite encouraging.
This was a great opportunity for Engine Yard to pick up 3 brilliant engineers. I know others at Sun who have been propositioned with job offers too. This is not Sun losing interest in JRuby - this wasn't a initiated by Sun, and as you can see from their statements they were all happy with their backing from Sun. It's also not a "sign" of things to come from Oracle; Oracle cannot legally make commitments yet, so this was merely a "let's take safe route A before we know if route B is safe". -- Tor On Jul 28, 7:00 am, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: > http://bit.ly/ZHO45 > > I can't help but wonder if this is the first signs of a deterioration > in alternate language support for Sun under Oracle. For the JRuby team > to jump ship is no small matter, and sends a message to others at the > company working on similar things. This event in and of itself isn't > monumental, more like a sign of stress fractures. I have to wonder how > committed Snoracle will be for alternate languages on the JVM. Its not > like I view the event is clear proof positive that things are going > downhill, more like it plants a seed of doubt and one wonders if its > the first signs of storm clouds on what has previously been a Sunny > day. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
