After tap dancing with IBM for the past few months, now it looks like Oracle is about to purchase Sun Microsystems and some of my colleagues at work are wondering if this is a good thing or not. We work with some of the Java-based Open Source applications sponsored by Sun and bundle 3 of them - OpenDS, OpenSSO, and Glassfish, into a product offering for our customers who desire a non-commercial solution, free of up front/annual fees and restrictive licensing. We also use the NetBeans IDE in our work to customize and bundle the 3 applications into a single solution; and we use MySQL in other projects...
What happens to these and other Open Source products once Oracle closes the sale? We can only hope that Oracle will continue the Open Source initiatives sponsored by Sun and fully support the JCP process as well...
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