> A very interesting blog post about the Oracle v.s. Google > lawsuit (hint: it revolves around Java ownership and its > impact on android) > http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/08/14/how-oracle-might-kill > -googles-android-and-software-patents-all-at-once/ > A word of warning: the author is an Apple fanboy and does not > like google. However, his perspective is intellectually > stimulating (well, at least for me) Best > François
Yes, very interesting. At Paradigma, this is often a topic of conversation because Sun's business is a trio of technologies: - Solaris - Java - MySQL My understanding is that Oracle has made very serious investments in Java based tools and Linux. They definitely do have some plans for Solaris - even as they've shut down any work on Open Solaris - but I think both that and MySQL are not the reason why Oracle purchased Sun. Oracle has a real enemy in IBM, and IBM was also making offers on Sun. If IBM got ahold of Java, they could make Oracle really suffer. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
