Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing?

GMGruman writes "Oracle has steadily provoked the open source community since its acquisition of Sun, raising the question of whether the move will simply destroy Sun. But as Paul Krill observes, Oracle has been steadfast in upgrading Sun-derived technologies — and making them profitable, which should mean they will stick around a long time."

Comments

Re:Wish Sun had been bought by Apple

[ArmchairGeneral]

But Apple doesn't seem to have any interest in the enterprise. Most of their products are end-user oriented and in one way you could say they would like the client-facing side of the enterprise, if they want any part of it. AFAIK they've never put in anything serious for enterprise servers, and I don't think they want that. Of course I wonder why Google didn't pick up Sun when it had the chance. They shared a lot of common philosophies, especially those in regards to the open source community. Not to mention avoid the upcoming Oracle vs. Android lawsuit as they would have had Java in their back pocket. Of course Ellison might have found another reason to sue them anyway.

Re:Java and Minecraft might as well merge

[mswhippingboy]

Just about every vendor's enterprise desktop applications I've seen over the last 5 years or so. Of course, I realize that enterprise applications are not cool on /. so I can see how this goes unnoticed.