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Oracle Finally Killed Sun

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 05 2017, @04:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the will-it-become-dark? dept.

canopic jug writes:

The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:07PM (#563900)

    I read something in TFA about Oracle wanting to unload it onto some kind of foundation.

    Java just isn't going away. I use IcedTea (OpenJDK) on my machines at home. Prevents me from having to fetch the installer tarball from Oracle's retarded website.

    Apparently NetBeans is going to Apache, too. That's fine with me. NetBeans is a decent IDE.

    Common confusions: No, I'm not talking about applets. Nobody uses applets anymore. No, I'm not talking about AWT or Swing applications. Nobody uses Java desktop applications anymore (except NetBeans). No, I'm not talking about appy Android apps used by modern app appers. (I'm a LUDDITE, I guess.) I'm talking about servlets and web applications. The Java open source community for server-side is huge. Apache Commons has a ton of stuff.

    There's too much momentum for it to go away. Even if Oracle tried to shut it down, everybody would switch to OpenJDK/IcedTea. Of course, last time I thought that some retarded judge made a retarded judgement that made that murkier, so I suppose there's always the possibility for the BSA to have a field day, but I don't know what would be the point. (Greed, avarice, spite...)

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  • (Score: 1) by tbuskey on Saturday September 09 2017, @11:45AM

    by tbuskey (6127) on Saturday September 09 2017, @11:45AM (#565607)

    There's too much momentum for it to go away. Even if Oracle tried to shut it down, everybody would switch to OpenJDK/IcedTea.

    I'd like to find a Windows OpenJDK installer. Our product uses OpenJDK on Linux, but some of our developers are using Windows. They need to use Oracle's JDK.