So, Oracle does what IBM is unable to do, buy Sun Microsystems. What does it all mean?
Oracle is now billing itself as “The world’s largest enterprise software company”, (See the bottom of the URL above and any other recent Oracle press releases). I’m not sure when the “enterprise” element jumped into their self provided description. It could have been some time ago and I just wasn’t paying attention. Sounds ominous. Good or Bad, it prompted three immediate questions from my Medulla Oblongata:
- What does this mean for MySQL?
- What does this mean for the JCP, and the future of Java as a standardized technology?
- What does it mean for Sun OSS involvement? Will it create new obstacles for the next release of the Java platform? Is an impending sale of Sun the reason the subtle naming of the next release has moved from Java to JDK?
Ok, so a few more questions snuck in there besides the three initial ones. It’s hard to put a lid on the questions stream with such a big announcement on a Monday.
Has anyone seen anything that indicates Oracle’s direction on these? What implications of the corporate shift are not included in these three questions?
Hey, maybe this means the C in JCP will start standing for COMMUNITY a bit more
I think Oracle have at least as much invested in standards as Sun does, and maybe more, so I’m not too worried about Java in Oracle’s hands.
More news on MySQL post-Oracle
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/134208&from=rss