Oracle buy Sun, an Open Source Disaster?
Millions of web worker around the world trusted MySQL as their dbms, why not; it’s powerful, stable and definitely open source!, but be careful on the last one.
This week Oracle agreed to purchase Sun Microsystem for 5.6 billion USD which could become the most influential acquisition in the IT history. The thing that scarred the open source community is what will happened to Sun’s open source project, to remind you they have MySQL which Sun recently purchased and is one of the most powerful open source project on the web to date, then there’s Java, considered as the world’s number 1 programming language, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, JavaFX and Netbeans.
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