Freaking IBM, this is the just another nail coffin for Java. The IBM proposal was making a lot of sense, to us developers anyways.

And now whats the future of Suns SPARC Rock CPU? that autoparallel thingy was awesome.

Damn, I think that is the last nail in Unix` coffin. Fisrt SGI now this.. Who else is left.. HP and IBM? They'll prolly be killing it soon too, once all the contracts run their course. Its sad to see, but its just the sign of the times I guess. At least they managed to open-source solaris before the flesh-eating voultures(lawyers) get their hands on all of Sun's IP. Linux will no doubt take over where Unix left off, but the hardware was really top-notch.

On the second thought, this would poparly drive people away from JAVA, especially for those who has not yet decided which way to go yet(.NET/JAVA).

M$ would be most welcome the news.

They PeopleSoft $10bn, JdEdwards $2bn .. now $7.2bn ... a $20bn purchasing in 3-4 years. MS-Yahoo deal is childsplay infront of aclaimed history's most notorious takeover aka Oracle's PeopleSoft takeover (SAP pulling PeopelSoft's other end). Maybe we can say in light of 8bn MS yearly RnD investment Vs 1bn Oracle RnD yearly investment that MS spends too much on RnD and Oracle spends too much on just shopping intellectual properties.

DOWNLOAD ALL NOW!!!

Oracle will try find ways to make money.

Providing things doesn't make money, and hosting costs $$$.

Usually the free things are the first to go, next will be jobs.

So get all the candies and java while you can before the help yourself sign is taken down and the candy bowl is empty ;)

No no... no no no! This can't be! Felt like this when Compaq took over DEC. F*ck no! There dies another great singularity. I am gonna have to live in denial for a day. F*ck!

Same thought here. Download anything from the Sun while you still can!

(Bin/src... everything!)

Oracle kills its biggest competitor. Who would have thunked it?

Oracle can't 'kill' MySQL at all. The GPL branch will remain free forever, that's sort of the point :)

A new GPLd branch of MySQL will be maintained by others. Now I wouldn't put it past Oracle to completely destroy the 'MySQL' trademark though...

I've basically read this same article on 3 sites now and there has been no mention at all about VirtualBox.

I know that Oracle and VMWare have been good friends in the past, so I wonder what will happen with this situation now that Oracle owns VirtualBox.

At the end of the day my only concerns is that what has been GPL'd stays that way and that Oracle doesn't turn into a Microsoft. Oracle has always been expensive but at least when you spend that money you truly do have a mission critical non-stop system unlike Microsoft's "Mission Critical" view of things.

So you mean to tell me they won't kill mysql at the first chance they get? I guess I'd better download it while it's still free.

Over/Under for the MySQL fork due to Oracle changing the license is at 12 months.

I propose it will be called "OurSQL." You heard it here first, folks.