Re: [OT] Is Sun dead?

Guys,

I do believe not even IBM can sweep so easily a whole way of thinking,
as it happens with people engaged in Java technologies. Right now, it
is hard for me to speak about Sun products as Sun's legacy. Sure it is
for you too. Still in hope...

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Masoud Kalali <[email protected]> wrote:
> epdv wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I've got to read this:
>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735124997967063.html ("IBM in Talks
>> to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft"). So, will Sun be part of IBM?
>> Will it probably no more exist? If IBM will aquire Sun - will NetBeans
>> engagement be terminated?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
> Hi Peter,
>
> If the take over happens and IBM buys Sun:
>
> Sun as Sun for its customers will live through as IBM is looking to take
> over Sun's customer base and provide them with support and charge them
> with big $$$ which probably Sun is/was unable to do.
>
> No one knows what will happen to NetBeans and rest of Open Source
> projects which are sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
>
> Best prediction is that IBM keep most Open Source product and push them
> as a well integrated, high performance open source bundle for its
> customer and charge them $$$$ for service and support.
>
> Worst prediction is that most of these projects end up orphan and die in
> Apache incubator or somewhere else.
>
> I blogged about this at
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2009/03/ibm_in_talks_to.html
>
> Masoud.
>
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> Masoud Kalali
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> http://www.manning.com/kalali/
>
> Software Engineer and Developer
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>
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