[cisco-voip] Oracle Buys Sun

[Paul]

My goodness! What changes will this bring to the computing world.

Oracle depends on Java for a LOT of things. I'm hoping they don't try to change the license from GPLv2 to something else. Oracle has shown promising moves with its support and development of the Linux kernel. It's also using Xen for its virtualization. Sun owns VirtualBox with xVM Server. While Oracle, like Cisco, has been moving strongly into the direction of using Linux for everything under its sun (no pun intended), after purchasing Sun with Solaris, will they start to encourage everyone to move to Solaris so they can pull in dedicated support revenue?

Oracle will also own the big daddy of all filesystems (ZFS) and one of the most innovative system diagnostic tools, DTrace. I'm hoping Oracle will continue to strongly support free software development as it is ultimately only to their benefit.

Paul




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From: Matt Slaga (US) <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com>
To: Cisco Voip <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:59:26 AM
Subject: [cisco-voip] Oracle Buys Sun


There was talk about Cisco perhaps buying Sun, but looks
like Oracle bought them up today.
 
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223090-16.html
 
 
 
Thanks!
 
Matt Slaga
 +1-571-203-4132
 matt.slaga at us.didata.com
 matt.slaga at us.didata.com
 
 
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