The King is dead. Long live the King…
OpenSolaris is now officially dead. RIP.
Oracle sues Google over Android and Java
Having used Solaris and Oracle products in an Enterprise environment, I can’t say that I am surprised. When the rumors of Oracle’s purchase of Sun, I realized Java was dead. “The End of Innovation” should have been the headline.
Why?
Sun was bleeding money, badly. They had lost focus and drive. A hardware company that also does operating systems and supports an open source development platform? WTF? (Almost sounds like Microsoft, but in reverse). I digress. Sun needed a buyer. The existing model wasn’t working. If it had, they wouldn’t have been bought out. Right? Right.
Oracle has NEVER been an open company. Big Larry learned early that once you’ve got their data, no company is interested in moving to a new platform. A decade ago Microsoft’s SQL Server wasn’t as stable as Oracle. It couldn’t scale up “enough” to handle the data load. Oracle had a better product. (The religious zealots enter stage left.) A different kind of deal with the devil was the only real option for some organizations.
So here we are. The Open Source movement has suffered a huge set back. It may not be noticeable today, but I believe we are swinging the pendulum in the other direction. And I thought SCO’s legal actions were distasteful.
The King is dead.
Long live the King.
