Oracle buys Sun

[Rick N]

  (Actually) and Histrorically, Sun had a lot to do with the BSD's (and vice-versa), Bill Joy's early work and contibution to the BSD/Unix which later he took to form a little company called Sun Microsytems in the late '70's.

 

 Times are sure a changin'.

  Personally, I can thank SunOS for getting me into UNIX in 1996.

 In fact, I can honestly say that my Sun expertise later proved to give me a "LOT" of solid full-time work as a Sun Unix Sys Admin for another 10 years.   

 Basically we can thank Sun and the Internet for our house and land that my wife and I own today.

 

 Sun was one of the best employers, and I know I will never find an employer  as good as that ever again.

 

Sun was to UNIX/Internet, like NASA was to the Space Program.

 

 I guess (as far as OpenSource...) it's ALL up to the xBSD's and Linux now.

 

 Hey!,  lets buy Oracle !

:)

 

Rick.


 
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:42:18 +0300
> From: lists at freebsdonline.com
> To: freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
> Subject: Oracle buys Sun
> 
> 
> I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it 
> matters, maybe many of you heard about last news:
> 
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246 - 
> /"Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) 
> announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under 
> which Oracle will acquire Sun 
> <http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363oracleharligekbtSun...> 
> common stock for $9.50 per share in cash.
> 
> /Some interesting comments were posted like:
> ---------
> Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark...
> 
> "all your database are belong to us"
> --------
> or
> 
> 
> Thankfully, I have recently switched myself (and my clients) over to 
> Postgresql.
> 
> It was a sad day when Oracle got the rights to the InnoDB engine, but at 
> least MySQL itself was in the hands of Sun.
> 
> With Oracle now owning all the rights to what is probably the biggest 
> free competitor, I think the open source world shouldn't put much stock 
> or investment into MySQL.
> 
> Is there any anti-trust factors to this? Oracle, being a dominant 
> database player, and buying up the biggest open source database?
> 
> Aside from that, I find this all very sad. Sun was one of the Unix 
> innvators from the earliest days. Even when they grow large, they still 
> seemed like a "cool company." Healey used to personally answer emails I 
> would send him. Oracle seems to be the antithesis of this; major, 
> corporate, gouging, monster... One can only hope that some of Sun's 
> culture and products will survive.
> --------
> 
> 
> Thinking of all good open source software they got like, besides mysql: 
> openoffice, netbeans, java ......... is indeed sad that IBM did not 
> aquired SUN.
> 
> 
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