> @Casper, dont be a fanboi, they=Google!= the guy who sells pop corn in > the canteen..
Stop calling people fanboys and come up with solid argumentation instead, we are all here, at some level, a fanboy! >What "subtle degradation of Netbeans" are you referring to? Mind you, I never said they were killing NetBeans (as some appear to have interpreted it too). And perhaps it's just me, but I feel I've picked up this vibe that JDeveloper is primary while NetBeans is secondary. A few data-points used in that extrapolation (there are many others, incl. Oracle's own vague testimony on the subject): http://blogs.oracle.com/dana/2010/02/netbeans_to_jdeveloper_part_2.html http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2010/01/migrating_from_netbeans_to_jde.html Remember, JDev was made free (as in beer) relatively late in 2005 when they pretty much had to. If Oracle wants to tighten the race against Eclipse and Idea, and make money, it seems likely that mission would be handed to JDev since this is where extracts from their other purchases is ending up (under their Fusion brand). Whether I am right or wrong won't be proven anytime soon as NetBeans won't disappear over night in any event, so perhaps we should take the subject up again in a year from now. :) > It not like they are opening their search engine code, adWords, Big Table > (yes white paper and it been copied), GFS, GWS and any other important > code. :) Noooo, but now you are mixing livelihood products/services into the picture. JavaFX and tools are also not open source, this appear to have been meant to maintain Sun's livelihood. Unfortunately for Sun, too little and too late to come into play. So I'd argue that the fact that Google wants to make money on some closed stuff, doesn't negate the open stuff they do in other places. But we're getting off a tangent. Fact is, Android shares nothing but the language interface with any of Oracle's stuff. It's can be seen as a bold and calculated move by Google, but they DID play by the rules and they DID get a lot more done than Sun/Oracle. As someone on Twitter said: Those who can, do; those who can't; sue. -- 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.
