That's what I love about the open source community. Someone can move from one company to another and it's not the end of the world. You can still work on the same project, interact with the same people, and hang out with your friends at the same conferences.
-j On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:41 AM, TorNorbye wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
