[CoLoCo] The End of Sun Microsystems

[David Overcash]

The only real concern of mine is the future of MySQL.  I was already worried
about a fork but I think now it's impossible for it to not happen.

-David

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jason B. Hill <jason at jasonbhill.com>wrote:

>
> There's a lot of gloom and doom about Sun being acquired, that linked
> article being a good example. But, Sun was already in the midst of a
> long-time evolving restructuring movement that was largely failing: the
> stock price had dropped 80% in one year before they entered into acquisition
> talks with IBM or Oracle, their posted losses last year were in the
> billions, and they had slashed or planned to slash 15-18% of their
> workforce.
>
> I'm waiting to see what happens. Overall, I'm cautiously optimistic as I
> hope Oracle's stated objectives for JAVA, Solaris and SPARC can make this
> side of Sun thrive again. (OK, so their technology and products are awesome
> already and they are still selling multi million dollar servers on a daily
> basis... but they aren't thriving like they used to. Only one of the top 500
> computers now uses SPARC, compared to 88 a couple of years ago.) In the end,
> my roommate's ability to pay his rent will be decided by Oracle in the
> coming days... so I have my fingers crossed... crossed very tightly.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> They're been officially acquired by Oracle.  What happens from here is
>> anyone's guess.
>> Likely Sun's technology will be incorporated into Oracle's brand name.
>> As for OpenSolaris, no news yet if it will continue or be left in limbo.
>>
>> http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/07/16/The-End-of-Sun.aspx
>>
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