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I've been following this for a while. OpenSolaris, VirtualBox and MySQL are all things I was worried about surviving in the wake of Oracle's takeover. I use all

by ax0n 16y ago

I've been following this for a while. OpenSolaris, VirtualBox and MySQL are all things I was worried about surviving in the wake of Oracle's takeover. I use all three quite a bit.

pavel_lishin 16y ago
I was not aware VirtualBox was controlled by Oracle. I just switched to it because it was a free alternative to Parallels. Suddenly, I care about this issue!
- ax0n 16y ago
  I switched from Parallels when Parallels started sucking AND THEN wanted more money for me to upgrade to 3.x. VirtualBox, back then, was anemic but functional. Now, it's really going places with features that still trail behind the commercial brands you know and love, but when you consider it's free, it's hard to complain too much.
kls 16y ago
I don't think you have anything to worry about virtualbox, virtualization and cloud computing are now instrumental to growth. Oracle did not have a comprehensive strategy. With VirtualBox it gives them a jump start on building a roadmap to one. The other two, yeah they are in trouble. I was worried about Netbeans and Glassfish before the acquisition because it is the most rapid way to develop in Java and the best solution out there in the latest class of IDE / server run-time combos. They just released new versions so I am starting to feel some relief on that one. I got bit on OpenSolaris and OpenSSO I used both of them extensively and they killed both pretty quickly.
- spudlyo 16y ago
  I don't think MySQL is in trouble. The MySQL community is strong, and innovation from the likes of Google, Percona, Facebook, and others has been just as important as of late than anything that Sun/Oracle/Innobase has done. There are plenty of ways that MySQL can succeed even if Oracle were to completely abandon it. I don't worry about MySQL at all.
nitrogen 16y ago
Add client-side Java and JavaFX to that list. Sun was already failing on the desktop, but Oracle seems to have even less interest. Thank goodness HTML5+js will soon reach enough penetration to replace Java as a portable application framework.

by ax0n 16y ago

I've been following this for a while. OpenSolaris, VirtualBox and MySQL are all things I was worried about surviving in the wake of Oracle's takeover. I use all three quite a bit.

pavel_lishin 16y ago

I was not aware VirtualBox was controlled by Oracle. I just switched to it because it was a free alternative to Parallels. Suddenly, I care about this issue!

ax0n 16y ago
I switched from Parallels when Parallels started sucking AND THEN wanted more money for me to upgrade to 3.x. VirtualBox, back then, was anemic but functional. Now, it's really going places with features that still trail behind the commercial brands you know and love, but when you consider it's free, it's hard to complain too much.

kls 16y ago

I don't think you have anything to worry about virtualbox, virtualization and cloud computing are now instrumental to growth. Oracle did not have a comprehensive strategy. With VirtualBox it gives them a jump start on building a roadmap to one. The other two, yeah they are in trouble. I was worried about Netbeans and Glassfish before the acquisition because it is the most rapid way to develop in Java and the best solution out there in the latest class of IDE / server run-time combos. They just released new versions so I am starting to feel some relief on that one. I got bit on OpenSolaris and OpenSSO I used both of them extensively and they killed both pretty quickly.

spudlyo 16y ago
I don't think MySQL is in trouble. The MySQL community is strong, and innovation from the likes of Google, Percona, Facebook, and others has been just as important as of late than anything that Sun/Oracle/Innobase has done. There are plenty of ways that MySQL can succeed even if Oracle were to completely abandon it. I don't worry about MySQL at all.

nitrogen 16y ago

Add client-side Java and JavaFX to that list. Sun was already failing on the desktop, but Oracle seems to have even less interest. Thank goodness HTML5+js will soon reach enough penetration to replace Java as a portable application framework.