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?
What I'm more concerned with is the amount of contributions to PostgreSQL.
This is the beauty of being an open source project like PostgreSQL instead of an open source product like MySQL. The former means that companies can join and leave the effort, as has happened several times so far and will again for PostgreSQL. The latter means the project's health is tightly tied to the vagaries of that one company.
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:5, Insightful)
There was a time when Oracle was considering Netbeans [zdnet.com], but Oracle joined the Eclipse Foundation.
I don't think JDeveloper is based on Eclipse though.
Might be interesting to see what happens. I think Netbeans will live on. Too many of sun's products rely on it.
What I'm more concerned with is the amount of contributions to PostgreSQL.
I still feel had they put more money/time into postgresql instead of buying MySQL, they wouldn't need to be bought.
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:2)
This is the beauty of being an open source project like
PostgreSQL instead of an open source product like MySQL. The
former means that companies can join and leave the effort, as has happened
several times so far and will again for PostgreSQL. The latter means the
project's health is tightly tied to the vagaries of that one company.