Comments | blackdjinn: Oracle Inc... Spreading Goodwill

blackdjinn

Oracle Inc... Spreading Goodwill

Jun 05, 2010 14:43

Whatever (and if) you may have thought about Sun Microsystems, I never met anyone who hated them. They were always a hardware company, making microcomputer servers that drove the fledgling Net from its humble beginnings. The best thing about them, historically, is that they would develop software to do basic tasks... manage large numbers of ( Read more... )

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ljhornmoy June 9 2010, 03:10:57 UTC

My God! You've been sold to someone who makes MicroSoft look saintly! Proof that things can ALWAYS be worse.

So sorry to hear this, dude. It's a bitch being kicked out of the Garden...

Upon further reflection... ljhornmoy June 9 2010, 03:16:54 UTC

BTW, does this mean I can look forward to problems down the road, or is Ubuntu a safe haven - for now?

Re: Upon further reflection... blackdjinn June 9 2010, 23:42:13 UTC

This is not a Linux problem. It's a problem caused by a particular hardware vendor (Sun Microsystems) being aquired by another company (Oracle Inc.) Ubuntu is in really in no danger.

Re: Upon further reflection... ljhornmoy June 10 2010, 03:59:55 UTC

Ah, Okay thanks! My confusion lies in that I thought Linux was developed under Sun's aegis, but I am clearly in error. My bad.

Re: Upon further reflection... blackdjinn June 10 2010, 04:45:56 UTC

The one that has people twitching is something called MySQL, which is a database system that runs a huge percentage of websites. There is a web deployment target platform called LAMP which is Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP and its used all over the place. Oracle has MySQL now and there are a lot of people sweating about it and looking for a replacement. Probably end up with something called Postgres, so LAMP becomes LAPP...