That was kind of expected, especially given their focus on hardware - Oracle already makes huge money by delivering non-cloud software (and I believe Larry famously said the cloud is dead). Ironically, I think we're finally moving into the age appropriate for Sun's old moniker "the network is the computer". So you have got to wonder whether Sun/ Oracle isn't turning into another IBM now, primarily servicing conservative and legacy systems.
/Casper On Jan 28, 12:18 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 5:11 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > They are killing, at least, one project. Kenai is dead. See the FAQ > > on OTN. > > First of all, this is very positive news for the Sun employees since > most of them will keep their job. Where the products overlap, the Sun > stuff (Glassfish, Netbeans, MySQL) seems to be pushed into the "web > corner" with the Oracle Stuff (Weblogic, JDeveloper, Oracle DB) firmly > remaining in the "enterprise corner". A lot better than being > canceled altogether! > > It seems that the only huge product being killed so far is the planned > Sun cloud (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/28/ > sun_amazon_cloud_dead/). > > I am now convinced that being taken over by Oracle was better for Sun > than being taken over by IBM and HP and is better for the industry as > a whole because this will put some heat on IBM, HP and Dell. -- 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.
