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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: 2) by arslan on Wednesday September 06 2017, @07:37AM

    by arslan (3462) on Wednesday September 06 2017, @07:37AM (#564076)

    Can they even if they want to? Other folks like Apache and IBM produce their own Java runtime off the spec. People can just move to it. If anything I'd rather like to see Oracle give up on it and Apache take ownership.

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