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

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: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Tuesday September 05 2017, @11:35PM (1 child)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 05 2017, @11:35PM (#563969) Journal

    I thought the purchase was to ensure MySQL never developed the necessary feature set to directly challenge Oracle

    On the other hand, Mysql was (dual-licensed but) GPL, meaning that Oracle would have to release (major portions of) their dbms if they took Mysql code and incorporated it.

    Whereas, now, Oracle is the copyright holder and can do what they darn well please with Mysql, including incorporating parts into their proprietary dbms.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @06:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @06:08AM (#564054)

    Not true. They could choose to use the other license, they just can't change the license if they don't own the code.

    So anybody who has the gpl licensed code can continue to use it under the gpl if they wish and Oracle doesn't have to provide any of their changes if the other license doesn't require it.