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Oracle bought Sun because they wanted MySQL. To me, it looks like they noticed everything else in their portfolio only after they bought it. “Oops. We accident
by rhabarba 4y ago
Oracle bought Sun because they wanted MySQL. To me, it looks like they noticed everything else in their portfolio only after they bought it.
“Oops. We accidentally bought a CPU design, a complete enterprise OS, a virtual machine, an Office suite and quite a handful of other things. Let’s just pretend we didn’t.”
Or what exactly has survived the sellout?
- pjmlp 4y agoNothing would have survived, that is the point. Java would have died at version 6, never open source (process was finalized under Oracle's management). GraalVM would never existed. Solaris would have died. All Sun assets would have been taken by the debt collectors and done accordingly.
- rhabarba 4y agoAnd now, Solaris has, in fact, died, other projects have left ‘Orrible before it was too late. It’s all over and gone because Oracle bought it and does not care. (One could debate whether keeping Java alive was a good thing.)
- pjmlp 4y agoStill better than dying in 2010. Solaris licenses are still being sold, then again, Oracle hatters tend to like free beer instead of understanding how to keep lights on a running business.
- sys_64738 4y ago> Oracle bought Sun because they wanted MySQL. You're way of in the weeds.