Oracle buys Sun

Here is my take on the news about Oracle buying Sun. In some cases, company acquisitions simply kill competing business. So, Oracle's acquisition of Sun could do that, but I think Sun's products compliment Oracle's. Oracle does not have an operating system. PL/SQL is the closest thing Oracle has to a language. And, Oracle does not manufacture hardware. So, I think the Oracle acquisition of Sun will help advance Sun's product lines in the future. I think it is a good thing. And, better than if IBM had bought Sun or if Sun had continued to struggle on its own.

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Comment by Zemian Deng on April 21, 2009 at 8:50am
I sure hope so. I hope the JDK development will surpass Sun management. I think current JDK is getting bigger and bigger with many unnecessary legacy libraries, but yet missing convenient languages features such as type inference, tail recursion, closure etc. And then Sun didn't do much to improve the Java Swing, which many developers are crying to have. I have mixed feelings about JavaFX.

With rich company like Oracle, I really hope they fuel the JDK development and take some giant leap toward the coming months.

All the best to Oracle and people who are working hard on Java.
Cheers!

PS: MySQL future seems little cloudy. I really like the DB, and hope Oracle won't kill it.

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

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