Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

James Gosling Grades Oracle's Handling of Sun's Tech

Posted by Unknown on from the a+-for-killing-solaris dept.

snydeq writes "With the four-year anniversary of Oracle's Sun Microsystems acquisition looming, InfoWorld reached out to Java founder James Gosling to rate how Oracle has done in shepherding Sun technology. Gosling gives Oracle eyebrow-raising grades, lauding Oracle's handling of Java, despite his past acrimony toward Oracle over Java (remember those T-shirts?), and giving Oracle a flat-out failing grade on what has become of Solaris OS."

4 of 223 comments (clear)

  1. Forgetting OpenOffice.org by jordanjay29 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even though it's since transitioned to Apache, Oracle still deserves to be graded on their handling of OO.o.

    1. Re:Forgetting OpenOffice.org by Rennt · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You are taking about the product itself, not Oracle's handling of the project.

      Yes, OpenOffice could open your documents fine. It did all that stuff before Oracle came along, alienated the developer base and ran the project into the ground.

  2. Java in the server, in the client, in the browser by gwolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are three very different things. Java in the server and in the client is alive and very very much healthy. Ugly and slow applets in the browser thankfully are almost dead — Because HTML5 delivered way better. But applets dying off does not in any way mean Java is any less healthy!

  3. No mention of SPARC? by kry73n · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SPARC has seen more advances in the 4 years under ORACLE then in the previous 15 years under Sun. I actually enjoy reading about their tech every now and then. But unless they open up Solaris again to attract the open source community the only thing that keeps it alive is backwards compatibility of legacy software.