So it looks like the Oracle acquisition is finally going to be approved by the EC so the nerd shop that is Sun will be no more. Everyone is kind of waiting to see what will happen with Java and MySQL, but no one really has any idea what will happen. All of this really makes me wish that Java had truly been open sourced because there is no telling what will happen with the JDK. As for MySQL, I see no way that Oracle doesn’t kill it. Hopefully Monty’s branch of MySQL, MariaDB, is strong enough to support the current MySQL community if that happens. I just wish Sun had found a way to stay afloat because that truly would have been the better option in this scenario.
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