[LinuxUsers] Oracle to buy Sun...

[Brian Friday]

Ouch that doesn't look good.

Monty of mysql fame also had a interesting blog update yesterday. It  
seems at the very least he believes the MySQL core will be jumping off  
the sinking ship. Cost cutting would also give Oracle a legitimate  
"out" in terms of killing the MySQL name.

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/

Talking with someone I know up here he mentioned a interesting point  
that I had not considered. If IBM bought Sun, more than likely the  
brand/name of Sun will continue to live on just as part of IBM. Now  
that Oracle has bought Sun, it's name will be absorbed and never seen  
again.

Things will change but MySQL code is GPL'd so it will live on if not  
under the same name. I think it is pretty clear now that the talks  
with IBM were purely a method to hook and reel in Oracle. The IBM/Sun  
fall out really strikes me more and more of Sun leveraging IBM's  
interest to goad Oracle into gulping down the proffered hook.

- Brian


On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to include the link about the 10,000 jobs:
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131864&source=NLT_AM
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