It appears that java.sun.com now has the Oracle logo on it. While Larry Ellison lied about no wholesale cutting of projects; many of the projects have fallen in the transition. JRuby, Project Darkstar, Project Wonderland, Kenai, OpenSSO, Identity and SOA, their cloud, some hardware and what else so far? And their ego has apparently decided that their inferior products that barely function at all (like Weblogic and JDeveloper) will be the enterprise-class products while the old Sun products (Glassfish and Netbeans) would be for open source projects. Evidentally, the future of OpenSolaris is also in question and I personally find it interesting that the referenced PDF didn't mention Xen in their Virtualization section. Also that HotSpot is being merged with JRockit can't be a good sign. And then there is the whole Accessibility layoffs. I assume many of these are next. Oracle is telling developers that they can still go to JavaOne as long as it is part of OracleWorld while we are all thinking we need to start our own convention -- maybe the opposite side of the country the same days so Oracle can't manage to attend.
So I guess the question is what next? Do we abandon Sun now that Oracle has taken over? Do we replace OpenSolaris, ZFS and Java with something Oracle can't ruin?
Everyone who looks at Microsoft as the ultimate evil, never had to deal with Oracle in the Database world. The scum that were unhireable at MS rise to the top at Oracle. You have no Idea, I will be surprised if any opensource survives the Oracle.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the corrupt government officials who get kickbacks for every copy installed in their subsidary departments like them... but personally, yes, I agree.
ReplyDeleteHeh, abandon ZFS for something Oracle can't ruin? The only competing technology is BTRFS, which isn't ready yet and is sponsored by... Oracle!
ReplyDeleteYeah that is unfortunate. There's a reason I have been using OpenSolaris... but they have lost all my loyalty.
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