Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Jesus, Tim. I just finished yelling at some other paranoid nutcase for > blaming this on sun/oracle. Sit down, and listen. > > Oracle hasn't bought sun YET. ** etc... **
+1 Not only the commitment of Sun about NetBeans hasn't changed, but for the first time there has been a public statement about the commitment on the Platform: http://blogs.sun.com/jpblog/entry/netbeans_6_8_and_the This is a relevant change in Sun's attitude from the latest months, as the community has been blaming Sun for years for his lack of push of the Platform product. Of course, there's the massive personnel layout and the lack of funds that are constraining many activities. But I see that the Sun management is still fighting as much as they can do for their products. Of course, nobody knows about what Oracle will do - fortunately, the EU stall seems to be coming to an end and I suppose we won't be waiting too much longer. Tim, people should express their opinion frankly, as you did. But people should be aware that they have a bit (ok, each one a tiny bit of course) of power to influence things. We're all sad for some parts of our beloved technologies to be dropped or frozen, but if the whole community attitude got so pessimistic to consider NetBeans (or whatever else) a dead product, that would be the best way to persuade the Oracle management to really drop it. Instead, we should make it clear that we are using it and that *we want* to keep using it. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -- 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.
