Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects?

gkunene writes "Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff from projects such as JavaFX, Project Looking Glass, and Project GlassFish."

Comments

Re:Such projects perhaps should die.

[ShieldW0lf]

Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff from projects such as JavaFX, Project Looking Glass, and Project GlassFish.

Ahh, but Oracle may decide to turn their offices into an exotic nightclub and force the engineers to work overtime as erotic dancers. You never know what they might do...

Speculation for nerds, stuff that's made up

Re:Such projects perhaps should die.

[AliasMarlowe]

...force the engineers to work overtime as erotic dancers...

How to lose staff and alienate customers?
Oracle has a track record of such brilliance.

Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle

[larry bagina]

a lot of moderators were wondering if pembo13 prefers ajax or java.

Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle

[Chyeld]

In other words, Sun has contractual obligations to continue with Glassfish, and Oracle has inherited those obligations. They can't just drop support.

Wanna bet?

Dear Valued Customer,

As you may already know, Sun has recently been acquired by Oracle. As part of this process, Oracle also inherited the service contracts you held with Sun. However, due to the current economic climate, some of Sun's less profitable product lines need to be discontinued or consolidated into existing product lines Oracle already has.

As such, Oracle is declaring that the following products: X, Y, and Z are being end of lifted as of December 31st 2009 and will no longer be supported Jan 1st 2010 and onward.

If you held a service contract for any of these products, you have the following options:

Accept a pro-rated refund on the remaining length of your service contract along with a nominal cancellation fee.

Contact your Oracle sales rep for a one time offer: a heavily discounted conversion from your current product and contract to Oracle's X, Y, and Z Squared server and a corresponding service contract covering the remainder of the length of your old one.

We do apologize for this inconvenience, but are confident that once you use our XYZ server, you will not look back.

Sincerely,
Bob

Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle

[rackserverdeals]

Dude! I hope you didn't reply to that message and give any personal information. It's clearly a phishing attempt, and a poor one at that!

First, the Sun/Oracle deal hasn't been finalized.
Second, you can see their form message software screwed up and didn't replace the variables X, Y and Z with real products. I see that happening a lot in spam lately.
Third, they didn't sign it with a full name, title, and contact information.

By way of example

[pjt33]

One really good Java game.

Re:Looking Glass

[afabbro]

Finally, they're under the control of a management hierarchy that doesn't consistently shoot itself in the foot!

True, Oracle has better aim...they generally shoot their customers in the foot.