[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - didn't Sun just acquire MySQL

[Stephen Davidson]

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Chris Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:29 -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>> Fred:
>>
>> Conspiracy theorists think Oracle 
>> did that to kill MySQL.... It makes
>> sense to me.
> 
> :)
> 
> Possible.  Java is very important to Oracle as well.
> Oracle is definitely one of the companies you CANNOT
> trust.  They'll say just about ANYTHING to make the
> acquisition... they may continue to say what you want
> to hear for a year or so... and THEN....  true
> colors start to show.
Historically, Java has not actually that important to Oracle, despite
their claims.  Only recently have they been looking at getting more
involved -- and they have not been well known for helping/maintaining
public APIs.  I can't be the only person to have had run-ins with their
code & support.  You should have seen their Linux install scripts for
Oracle 8 & 9 -- I never could get them to work to completion.  And as of
18 months ago, their Java Support was very bad (I don't know about more
recently -- but they did seem to be on a push to fix the bugs in their
Java Code base).  About the only thing you could trust was that their
some versions of their JDBC Connector would make a connection to the
Database, and usually give you most of its core functionality.  Anything
more than that, you had to supply yourself.  I don't know that Java will
advance under this.

> 
> Not sure if IBM would have been any better though.
http://www.eclipse.org & Geronimo -- good reasons to have had high hopes
for Java under IBM.

Regards,
Steve
(Java/J2EE Developer)
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