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?
I have many co-workers that use Eclipse everyday, but that never got hold of point of the joke in the name.
"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted by something else. It makes IBM's reasons for funding Eclipse dead obvious. Turn one of your competitor's product niche into a commodity.
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?
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Netbeans is much faster and elegant than JDev.
Netbeans is much like another Eclipse, maybe better...
Eclipse is open-source.
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I have many co-workers that use Eclipse everyday, but that never got hold of point of the joke in the name.
"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted by something else. It makes IBM's reasons for funding Eclipse dead obvious. Turn one of your competitor's product niche into a commodity.
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"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted
I think you mean occluded [thefreedictionary.com]. "occulted" is when you wave a dead chicken at it at midnight.
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actually thats how you get the perl support working
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:1)