This is newsworthy for the Posse. Hopefully they covered it in their podcasts. I'm still trying to catch up.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Blanford <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is starting to seem as though Oracle corp. is increasingly > irrelevant. > > I started thinking about this after reading the following article: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/09/harmony_android_oracle_apache/ > > It appears to me that it will be very hard for Oracle to control Java. > > Also, they are spending time trying to sell worthless products like > Solaris/Sparc after the whole world has gone Linux/Intel. > > In fact the whole suite of products acquired from Sun have little > commercial value (this is why Sun went bankrupt). > > Their RDBMS is looking dated in comparison to the competition and the > number of companies who are good candidates for their middleware > offerings is small and shrinking. > > Effectively I am starting this thread to keep a placeholder for all > the ways in which Oracle is irrelevant. > > Your thoughts are highly valued! > > -- > 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. > > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- 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.
