On Jan 17, 2008 3:00 AM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and on the same day Oracle acquires BEA for 8x the money..... :-) > > Oracle is doing it the other way around from Sun... > > OVM (Xen derivative) + OEL (RHEL derivative) => but not the hardware > > Contrary to popular belief, Sun doesn't make tons of money off Java. > All the big vendors made one-time source payments or annuties for use > of Java. But with OpenJDK out there, I see this business drying up.
Confirmed. I'm still scratching my head on how SUN is going to make money out java. Java is huge. It is currently the defacto programming language on the enterprise market and I foresee it will supplant Cobol as a business/financial programming language in the coming years and will probably stay that way for a couple of decades, maybe up to 2038... -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
