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Sun Hints At Open-Source Database Offering

Posted by timothy on from the trial-balloon-up-flagpole dept.

An anonymous reader points out a ZDNet story which begins "Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates," writing "Last week, during a meeting with financial analysts, Chief Executive Scott McNealy showed a slide that placed the words 'Sun DB' next to a list of existing database products. McNealy offered no details besides 'stay tuned.'"

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  1. Re:Throw money into an existing oss database inste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, given that OpenOffice is a giant piece of shit I would say that it is a bad thing that they didn't retroactively listen ot the original poster. OpenOffice is slow and ugly, and all of the money wasted on its development could have gone into work on KOffice or AbiWord/Gnumeric.

  2. currying favors by jeif1k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sun could "curry favors" with the FOSS community if they followed through on their committment made 10 years ago to turn Java over to a standards process. They would also curry favors if they just kicked out Schwartz, who has been behaving like a jerk towards FOSS.

    Yet another database won't make any any difference in their reputation. If anything, it's just a sign that Sun doesn't play well withothers--they could just use PostgreSQL.