Re: Oracle Buys Sun

Chris Bredesen <[email protected]>
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Via the IcedTea project [1], OpenJDK is available today in Fedora (I'm 
running it on F10).  It is also shipped and supported with Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat does build OpenJDK but we don't really maintain a proper fork. 
The developers contribute actively upstream, etc.

I'm using OpenJDK as my primary JDK and I have to say it is quite good. 
  I run Eclipse and JBoss Dev Studio on it as well as many verions of 
JBoss AS and EAP (the latter is actually certified on OpenJDK).  No real 
issues for me.

Hope this answered your questions and didn't sound too much like a sales 
pitch (it wasn't intended as such).

-Chris

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org

Shawn Hartsock wrote:
> More thoughts on Oracle buying Sun
>  http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/2800
> 
> And the real thread of concern seems to be centered on NetBeans,
> GlassFish, and MySQL.
> 
> Still I'm curious about what the OpenJDK really means
> http://openjdk.java.net/ never built it myself. Could you do a JDK
> distro? Could you wrap a JDK distro in a Linux distro for distribution
> now? Anyone out there working on or with an open source JDK/JVM
> variant? What would it mean to fork the OpenJDK and why would you want
> to do that?
> 
> I wonder if Oracle will change any of that. More importantly, does
> this mean the Sun logo will change the way the JBoss logo did (or
> didn't)?
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Don Brady <dbrady-d0/1ywxyuRNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
>> I though that we might as well mention it on the list since it will affect
>> the future of Java.
>>
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