ORACLE to acquire SUN
Oracle acquired Sun, yes indeed that is a major acquisition that will affect the IT world and OPEN SOURCE world as well. Sun Microsystems is a good participant in the FOSS world by their successful projects 1) OpenOffice 2) Java 3) NEtBeans 4) MYSQL I'm not sure what is the future for those successful corner stones projects in the FOSS world. for example what Oracle will do with Mysql. I agree that Mysql is not a major competitor to Oracle DB engine , but still I don't know. The mail sent from Jonathan I. Schwartz Current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems is listed b3low: " From: Jonathan I. Schwartz To: allsun@sun.com Subject: Today's Sun/Oracle Announcement Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:34:16 -0700 (07:34 EDT) Today's Sun/Oracle Announcement This is one of the toughest emails I've ever had to write. It's also one of the most hopeful about Sun's future in the industry. For 27 years, Sun has stood for courage, innovation, a willingn...