Oracle Buys Sun. Tom asked What this will mean for MySQL?. I can make a wager this is going to happen:
- MySQL will be laid to rest (R.I.P.)
- Oracle will continue (harder?) promoting Oracle Express as the leading free-of-charge database solution for Web shops and similar.
- PostgreSQL stays where it is on position of the best Open Source Database Management System in the World.
Anybody is going to predict what will happen to Java?
Update 2009-04-22 09:09:07: Sun and Oracle: End of a beautiful dream – Open source goes to work by Gavin Clarke, The Register.
I think Oracle will try hard to make Java better and to try to kill .NET since so much of their stack is built on Java. But .NET will still win. Long live Microsoft. :)
Regina,
I’m quite sure you are right. Anyways, it will be very interesting to observe how to situation evolves :-)
A sad end for what was once a very fine company…
I remember during the Apple’s dark days in 1994/1995, there was talk of it being acquired by Sun. How times change.
I also remember during my university days the CompSci machine was a long suffering Solaris machine which would, day-in, day-out, handle hundreds of simultaneous user sessions. I don’t remember it crashing once in the years I was there, despite the abuse of the trainee programmers.
This leads me the my question, what of Sun’s hardware business? Oracle is not a hardware company, what have they planned for it? Do they plan to sell end-to-end solutions of hardware/os/db/application stacks?