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poltr1Press release here (Sun) and here (Oracle).
How do I feel about this acquisition? Mixed.
I've been a fan of Sun Microsystems since the mid-to-late 1980s, when we had some Sun workstations at my university. It was one of the companies I wanted to work for, and even had phone interviews with them, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Their stronghold was Unix-based workstations, running their flavor of Unix, Solaris. Then, in the mid 1990s, their software engineers developed the programming language Java. "Write once, run anywhere" was the Java mantra. There have also been some nice open-source developments coming out of Sun, such as StarOffice (now called OpenOffice) and MySQL.
Two weeks ago, IBM wanted to buy Sun, and that deal fell through.
I hope Oracle keeps Sun around as a separate business entity. I'd hate to see the hardware product line disappear. And I'd hate to see the open-source work Sun has done disappear.
How do I feel about this acquisition? Mixed.
I've been a fan of Sun Microsystems since the mid-to-late 1980s, when we had some Sun workstations at my university. It was one of the companies I wanted to work for, and even had phone interviews with them, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Their stronghold was Unix-based workstations, running their flavor of Unix, Solaris. Then, in the mid 1990s, their software engineers developed the programming language Java. "Write once, run anywhere" was the Java mantra. There have also been some nice open-source developments coming out of Sun, such as StarOffice (now called OpenOffice) and MySQL.
Two weeks ago, IBM wanted to buy Sun, and that deal fell through.
I hope Oracle keeps Sun around as a separate business entity. I'd hate to see the hardware product line disappear. And I'd hate to see the open-source work Sun has done disappear.
