Oh wow.. many people I’ve spoken about the Oracle/Sun merger didn’t like the idea but also at former Sun not everyone seems to be happy about it. As always with mergers like these the most gifted and talented people are the first ones to leave. Those who actually matter don’t have to put up with management crap. Just pack up your ol’ bags and throw ‘m down at some other company who is delighted with your arrival.

So the latest rumours are now confirmed: James Gosling (father of the programming language Java) is bailing ship… who will be next? Who will stay behind? What will the impact be on Sun’s former assets like Java, Solaris and MySQL?

Oracle has already taken another approach with many of the assets they got from Sun. Former Sun Solaris, now called Oracle Solaris, used to be free (as in free beer) but Oracle Solaris has a 90-day trail period. After the trail period you’ll have to obtain a license from Oracle. Sure, you can still use OpenSolaris but unfortunately all (or most) future development to Oracle Solaris is closed source so these features and fixes will not end up in Open Solaris.

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