But was it in such a bad shape it had to be sold to be saved ? Personally, I still don't get the reason why it was sold in the first place. Granted, it probably didn't make the money Oracle or Microsoft are making, but that wasn't Sun's nature either.
Well anyway, que sera, sera... On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 15:35, Blanford <[email protected]> wrote: > We knew this would happen. > > Commercial software is simply a broken business. > Sun was a broken company, Oracle will not be able to fix it. > > Watch out! Look for Oracle to be in bad financial shape within the > next year or two. > > It is time for Java to go out on its own, it is time for a "Java > Foundation" to manage the project! > > p.s. > > Add OpenOffice, MySQL etc. to the roster. > > > > > On Jun 8, 9:26 am, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > > A new article at All Things D might confirm what a lot of people > > suspected/feared about the Oracle takeover of Sun. > > > > http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100607/oracle-ok-so-maybe-we-are... > > > > " “We’re not cutting Sun to profitability, we’re growing Sun to > > profitability.” > > > > Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that back in January as the company > > closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun. Interesting, then, to read > > Oracle’s latest 8-K filing in which the company adds up to $825 > > million in restructuring costs to the buyout–some 80 percent of them > > evidently earmarked for employee severance payments at Sun’s European > > and Asian outposts. The company had initially projected about $325 > > million in restructuring costs for the Sun integration, so this is a > > significant increase." > > > > Everybody panic? > > > > --Chris > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- 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.
