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
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures.
Yeah, just like vi and bash and pine and Gnome crowded out all their competitors!
Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. 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).
There are plenty of vibrant, active projects for all the categories you mentioned. Several BSD projects pre-date Linux and there are several successful newer kernels - Darwin, OpenSolaris, DragonFly BSD, etc. WebKit has matured to the point that it's a serious threat to the dominance to the ubiquity of Mozilla (and with an entire ecosystem of derived browsers rather than mostly one monolithic entity). And there are tons of projects competing (or complimenting) Apache - nginx, lighttpd, cherokee among the up and comers.
You also ignore that there are plenty of software categories that have no clear forerunner, such as text editors, development environments and music players.
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)
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures.
Yeah, just like vi and bash and pine and Gnome crowded out all their competitors!
Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. 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).
There are plenty of vibrant, active projects for all the categories you mentioned. Several BSD projects pre-date Linux and there are several successful newer kernels - Darwin, OpenSolaris, DragonFly BSD, etc. WebKit has matured to the point that it's a serious threat to the dominance to the ubiquity of Mozilla (and with an entire ecosystem of derived browsers rather than mostly one monolithic entity). And there are tons of projects competing (or complimenting) Apache - nginx, lighttpd, cherokee among the up and comers.
You also ignore that there are plenty of software categories that have no clear forerunner, such as text editors, development environments and music players.