Well well well. I can see this working well for Oracle - they use Java a great deal... and it should be good news for Sun's open source projects like Netbeans - which would, I think, be maintained under Oracle.
I guess it's a little sad to see Sun unable to continue by themselves, but the writing was on the wall and I think Oracle will keep all the Sun products working, but of course the big question is what does this mean for MySQL?
Netbeans is much faster and elegant than JDev.
Netbeans is much like another Eclipse, maybe better...
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures. Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. Try to compete with Apache. Try to build a new OpenOffice (though one that had a major corp backing). I expect these IDE's to converge in one way or other to a single winner, and some small hang-on-tight communities fervor's for their champ remaining intact.
As for MySQL, the Oracle benefactors will say: do not worry, my dear
Prediction: In 5 years, lighttpd and nginx will have taken over at least 30 or 40% of Apache's market. Unless Apache does something about their config file, that is.
What about MySQL? (Score:5, Interesting)
Well well well. I can see this working well for Oracle - they use Java a great deal... and it should be good news for Sun's open source projects like Netbeans - which would, I think, be maintained under Oracle.
I guess it's a little sad to see Sun unable to continue by themselves, but the writing was on the wall and I think Oracle will keep all the Sun products working, but of course the big question is what does this mean for MySQL?
Re: (Score:0, Redundant)
Netbeans is much faster and elegant than JDev.
Netbeans is much like another Eclipse, maybe better...
Eclipse is open-source.
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
Netbeans is much faster and elegant than JDev. Netbeans is much like another Eclipse, maybe better...
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures. Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. Try to compete with Apache. Try to build a new OpenOffice (though one that had a major corp backing). I expect these IDE's to converge in one way or other to a single winner, and some small hang-on-tight communities fervor's for their champ remaining intact.
As for MySQL, the Oracle benefactors will say: do not worry, my dear
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:2)
Does that mean Debian wins?
Prediction: In 5 years, lighttpd and nginx will have taken over at least 30 or 40% of Apache's market. Unless Apache does something about their config file, that is.