oracle never kills oss projects
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| Author | Content |
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| tuxchick Oct 03, 2014 2:18 AM EDT |
Except openSolaris and ZFS, openoffice, hudson, glassfish, innodb, and mysql looks a little pale. |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 03, 2014 8:52 AM EDT |
Now TC, who would spend all that money to buy a company's products, just to kill them off? |
| jdixon Oct 03, 2014 10:47 AM EDT |
Who said they were buying the open source products, Bob? The only open source products Oracle has ever killed are the ones they can't figure out how to make money from. :) |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 03, 2014 10:51 AM EDT |
Well they must have bought Sun for something, I just never could figure out what. |
| jdixon Oct 03, 2014 10:53 AM EDT |
AFAICT, they bought Sun for Java. They didn't trust anyone else with control of the language. Anything else was gravy. |
| skelband Oct 03, 2014 12:20 PM EDT |
@jdixon - Indeed, JAVA was what it was all about. |
| gus3 Oct 03, 2014 12:24 PM EDT |
Oh, come on, like Sun Microsystems never killed a project? Zembly? Open Tape? |
| jdixon Oct 03, 2014 12:39 PM EDT |
> ... like Sun Microsystems never killed a project? Sure. Wasn't it Sun who purchased that Canadian Linux appliance manufacturer and shut them down? Added: Cobalt Networks seems to be the company I was faintly remembering. But Sun couldn't a candle to Oracle in that regard. |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 03, 2014 1:14 PM EDT |
My instant reaction of "What's so important about Java" just shows I'm not a programmer. Just hand it to the same people who control C. |
| tuxchick Oct 03, 2014 9:14 PM EDT |
Yup, Sun killed Cobalt. That was a puzzler, because the Cobalt was popular and made money. Young grasshoppers, remember things like this the next time you are tempted to believe that people who run big businesses are smart. |
| jezuch Oct 04, 2014 4:15 AM EDT |
SUN was founded by engineers. They were smart... just not that kind of smart. Their demise was a given from the beginning. |
| jdixon Oct 04, 2014 9:55 AM EDT |
> That was a puzzler, because the Cobalt was popular and made money. Y Yeah, Cobalt was a very good company. Their folks did some good work for Sun after they were bought, supposedly (Wikipedia has an article on them). For some reason, I was thinking they were based in Canada, but it says California. No idea where I got that from. |
| JaseP Oct 05, 2014 2:42 AM EDT |
Quoting: My instant reaction of "What's so important about Java" just shows I'm not a programmer. Java's easier than C, which is why the Android people based Davlik on it... Cast a wide net and all,... in terms of getting developer mind share. If Java was in the hands of the people who control C, we'd have two versions of C (and I'd guess some would say that's a good thing). Of course, I'm not counting C+, C#, etc. as versions of C, for the purpose of making that statement. I thought most OSS people thought more options are better?!?! No?!?! |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 06, 2014 11:30 AM EDT |
I meant that as a metaphor, not a literal. :^) My original line said, "Just hand it to the people who control Fortran", but then I realized that would be terrible. |
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