I'm sure every one saw the big news of the day, Oracle (famous for their very efficient business class Enterprise Relational Database Management System) and Sun Microsystems(the company that created the language that is given the most credit for ushering in the Internet era) have agree in principle for Oracle to buy Sun (Heck this is almost as big news as the Jay Cutler being traded to the Bears by my Denver Broncos).
Aside from the rumblings this will send thru the world of Microsoft, the sure to come complaints that opensource will either soon go away or garner more support than ever (especially since Oracle has their own "unbreakable" Linux operating system), I wonder what consequences this will have on Web 2.0 technology. Sun has a bevy of tools that are opensource; the NetBeans IDE (which I actually think is better than Eclipse), Project Kenai (which allows developers to freely post projects and have forums for discussion), JavaFX (allows you to bring expressive, feature-rich content to mobile devices), and many many more. You add that to the company that has made database RDBMS systems better than anyone else (yes I am biased. DAMN SQL Server for getting rid of Data Transformation Services (DTS)packages). Add to that Suns Hardware platforms, and it seems that the newly formed Sun-Oracle (or SOracle...Sunacle....S/O, O/S.....ahh they will figure it out) has the tools in place to make a end run at a lot of Microsofts .net platform and products. It has yet to be seen if this latest transaction caused by the poor economy will bera big fruit, but it is going to be fun to watch. I know where I work this is all the Geeks are talking about. That's about 4000 geeks!!!!!!
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