I hardly think a bastardized Android JVM is a death knell for Oracle. Relatively speaking, Android is still a tiny fraction of the market.
Yeah, the Sun acquisition is a bit of a gamble but arguably Sun has some great technology that wasn't properly marketed + sold. So maybe Oracle can figure out how to capitalize and (perhaps more importantly) make the hard decisions to kill non-profitable things that Sun seemed to have trouble killing on their own. Oracle also has some of the pieces of the stack Sun was traditionally missing. It seems to me (as ex Sun employee of 5 years) the same reasons Sun couldn't profit are, like it or not, some of the same things people are complaining that Oracle is considering "fixing". You can't be everything to everyone and Sun eventually got bought b/c they didn't seem to recognize that or at least couldn't figure out what exactly they should be post mid 90s internet boom. >From a neutral, non-techie point of view, financial analysts are pretty high on Oracle. Obviously financial analysts tend to be about as reliable as weather analysts but FWIW they have also gotten more positive in the last 6 months and they were already pretty upbeat. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ao?s=ORCL+Analyst+Opinion Who knows what the future holds but color me skeptical that political dealings with Android gadgets are going to impact an enterprise company like Oracle either way. 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. > > -- 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.
