Following the recent acquisition of Sun by Oracle an interesting discussion kicked off via email within our WebSphere practice. The general consensus was that it probably wouldn’t change things that much but that it would be interesting to see how they handled their new toys while the BEA ones were still pretty shiny.
Today I came across this article http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/g1-paid. Whilst consisting of nothing more than speculation it raises some questions and elevates this a little higher up my list of things to keep an eye on.
Is there anything in this? Have Oracle got a masterplan to make money out of Java where Sun failed?
June 4, 2009 at 7:07 am
Looks like a non-issue now as Sun have reworded it to “not recommended” – see http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/kicking_the_tires_free_on. Having said that, this really illustrates the degree of concern about the Sun/Oracle/Java thing, with people on edge about where it’s going…any slight hint of a toughening up of Sun’s commercial stance related to Java is going to be pounced on it seems until this becomes clearer.