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I thought that IBM just not good pair. I thought, Sun will stands continue for next quarter. After all who want to see it being eradicated, demised and assimilated. It has awesome legacy but do that  matter when it comes about profit? Indeed, Not.

If they could wait for at least next loss quarter, It could have been a complete debacle. (Sun stock took a nosedive when IBM talk failed).

Look guys, how big company like Sun were secretly strangling in the flimsiest  safety net.  It turn out to be true that Sun was on verge of bankruptcy. Oracle saved it.  Now, I wanna see  Jonathan ponytail got cut.  Who cares here though?  But … yes FOSS cares few!

MySQL: Two lions cannot share one den

MySQL is Oracle’s Achilles’ heel. I am sure Larry got a nice sleep that night.

The best thing we can hope from Larry is donate this shits to some foundation (Apache, Eclipse…), I know Oracle bought InnoDB, and still attach with MySQL. Falcon is far far away to replace InnoDB. Now who knew that MySQL fate lies on  Oracle hands.

The worse from Oracle, Just keep it as it is. Cut down development cost and keep floating. Monty says he is stilling willing support Oracle.

The problem started much earlier in Sun’s MySQL division. Most of the core ppl have left Sun (started, when Monty resigned due to MySQL 5.1 release). If you read Monty blogs, he seems busy catching big dolphins  jumping out from Sun.

NetBeans

Though, I am not IDE aficionado but NetBeans matter  a lot for the community.

Here is a doubt,  Oracle JDeveloper based on JBuilder & there is easy way to dive into Eclipse because daddy JBuilder has already been through this transition pretty smoothly. However there are some possibility that Oracle may take NetBeans as their next official IDE but chances are gleam. Mr. Larry, who is better known for squeezing single penny out of every deal  will possibly re-think about the further investment on NetBeans just beacuse JDeveloper is working so fine with them.

The best I wished, Larry donate it to Eclipse as He did with with Toplink.

JavaFX :  The beginning  of the End

Touted with breathtaking RIA in Java. Next to Flex & Siliverlight. Just a year back, I saw a beta release. And on March,09, I saw its not so matisse-like interface but promising. It got, what not? a full fledge  fund, core resources from Swing team, consolidate Swing fiscal budget. Finally, The output we saw out to be the burned fried toast.

Oracle has no good track record of  front-end rich UI apps. I doubt a lot on JavaFX future. I donot recommend any guys doing JavaFX until Oracle commits seriously.. May be Larry has some other acquisition list …who know Adobe next?

OpenOffice

OpenOffice is another big bunch of products. Sun carried till  its doom day. OpenOffice is huge and bloated with really big performance issue. I hope to see some serious attempt from Oracle. Again, Larry has no firm commitment on it and We have to keep eyes the way Oracle follow its original roadmap. Next big things, see KOffice and other cool product.

Java

I call the only things the deal made Oracle happy. The Java,. But still resource collides, JRocket came along with BEA acquisition last year. Oracle may have tough time to consolidate two JVM division. Time will tell whether Oracle will be a better steward of Java than Sun has been.

More to see, Oracle flexibility towards JCP  and most important is long standing dispute between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun over the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK), specifically it’s licensing. There are few number of mismatch thought the way JCP is driving against OSGi and other few specs. I hope to see there some changes since Oracle is favoring OSGi.

Sun had a great set of principles towards OpenSource Communities.  Now its time to wait & see how Oracle will allows Sun folks to flourish inside its gigantic enterprise. Will the same MySQL story repeats again or the two different world floursh together?

I have a thought for a OpenSource today. No matter the project are driven with GPL or any friendly OSS license. I just wanna quote that A true OSS means not controlled by any single company, but has a global community of developers and companies to develop it.   Please think twice before you choose the product like MySQL, which core values lies on GPL but its steward may turn it upside down.  Choose PostgreSQL,
Nobody can buy it. Nobody can control it.

I wish if some elite member here could pour some thought on this deal and how it can effect the community there.

Thamel’s bars & nightclubs flourishing along the sweeping boulevards attracting us.  I looked his twiddling thumbs. He was in kinds of worried,  had a plan for this yule but was not excited, revealed a strange-grin-smile, sign not so good. He exclaimed“ I thought a reserving a week earlier, never dreamed! how rush Thamel now?”. Then, We-the-revelers  thought of using a last resort. And checked out with Rum Doodle but luck pissed off.  All we hate was the-Lohari-Song-Tortured-Bar, except any decent one.

Thanks, Kantipath’s Enigma’s garden-candle-light-dinner & with not so kinds of rock-and-roll. A second before I declared, “less is more”, here enigmatic beast switched off scintillating little tubes, and  one god damn candle  middle on the table, gracefully smiles, forming all silhouettes. I just hate, ate between bizarre  buzzing, rattling noise of toads.

Last night, Thamel night. But a last-bar-standing like a shadow of glorious heyday, lightening a huge candle for grim hope. All in sudden, its paraffin start drowning me, gripping me underneath with its hot melting fluids. My heart start pounding like  armies marching on Tudi-Khel’s barren fields. Felt being blind-wax-folded  dragged, gulped & boiled deep inside havoc chamber.

Just before I was dead, My cell roared  aloud.  I, like clumsy wax-statue, dragged hand for it. A little party-frenzy chauvinistic pal sounded -”Happy …god ….damn ….year!”

I replied “Oh! How surreal it was?”

He said – “What?”