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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.

Since The day I begun my serious donkey affairs,  I have been missing Hyderabadi tequila sunrise and a not-so-java-like-coffee. But Feb 19th dawn made me awake, Thanks my early alarm, It rang so loud, eavesdropped into my dream.

After struggling hustling bustling traffic, I found myself amid dark rock concert. The state of art auditorium was completely overshadowed by unconvincingly genius kid drummer.

In few minutes, Gosling received tumultuous welcome like rockstar. He spent rest of 45 minutes talking about Java mantra. “This underground London ticket is java powered”, said proud Gosling, displaying a smart card out from his pocket.

Java is ubiquitous and Sun knows better to keep Java on the long run. They recently revealed products like JavaFX that targets the emerging trends. Every products Sun has announced since 2005 remains open. Sun has realized that the open source software can create enormous revenue opportunities.

During my FOSS.IN  2006, in Bangalore,  Java was just announced GPL’ed and many more project were  already released under CDDL.  From the early 2006 to 2009, I found number of changes.  OpenSolaris now possesses groundbreaking features, NetBeans transform to universal IDE with awesome plug-in, however few product like OpneSlaoris still carries not-so-friendly license particularly cited in  GPL community Recently, MySQL AB acquisition has added one more products in its stack. GlassPath remains fully committed as opensource in license like GPL2. Truly, Sun has changed its business model realizing the risk that how other company are emerging more powerful than they had thought of.  Few years ago, Redhat almost turned out to be a serious threat, just few inch away in term of market capitalization.

Sun tech day’09 remains  with  few booths.  Sun commitment to PostgreSQL was clearly invisible after MySQL AB was brought in. Some serious framework like Spring remains completely overshadowed.  I noticed merely 2 sessions outside scope of Sun Engineer.  Seam,  the influential framework which leads JSR  299 specs, now known as WebBeans remains one of the cool topics , Groovy and Grails shows the pragmatic approach that could shift the current development model,  but still the majority of session remains focused with Sun engineered tools, frameworks and products.

IDE spectrum was one of the area where only NetBeans were given full preference. No single session on Eclipse was mentioned. The Eclipse community is many more times larger than NetBeans in India. I definitely love Netbeans for its features in 6.x onwards but Java community cannot ignore the IDE that remains the heart of every development  since the inception of opensource IDE revolution.

In fact the Sun Tech Days remind me yet another single man shows who wants their products (whether opensource or not) to be used and to be showcased whether visitors give damn about it or not.   The event organizer could have invited some of the successful framework developer or evangelist or experts. At least here in India, We see rare developer conference like this. There is no JavaOne, No open community can afford to held the diverse set of  tracks. The common Indian Java developers belief tends towards such events remains a defacto to Sun Java  and its not good idea Sun exploits this opportunity with its in-house products focused event.  Java is now cover with too many diverse framework and statistics shows that some of the big player are already adopting new stack of development tools ignoring the bloated complicated framework created by Sun.

JavaFX remains an appealing product for RIA domains but I am still not convinced on the fact that JavaFX can leads the RIA (may be it can in JVM). The Flash and Silverlight still remains dominating products and the heavily bloated JavaFX will have to wait sometime. The adoption rate of JavaFX cannot be compared with the download rates. Often this assumption leads to believe some of the top Sun honchos circle about its possible popularity.

In Mobile track, I was thrill to discover hot features in new  MIDP 3.0 & Light weight user interface toolkit (LWUIT),  could possibly reduce development time. BD-J and JavaTV API  was one of the coolest products I have seen so far in the session.  One interesting session surrounded with G1 gc as opposed to CMS gc. As we aware of the stop-the-world cost is bit high in CMS.  It remain always big headache for Enterprise grade server.  Now seems that G1 gc gonna cut this down by its new approach to make heap significantly less fragmented, more compact by creating a chunk of each mega bytes regions.  The G1 collector is  parallelized  and work concurrently with the application. The young collection remains as it is in CMS, but the significant advantage is in the collection of regions allocated as tenured space. You can read more in the web.  Its beyond the scope of this blogs. The g1 GC is available in OpenJDK 1.7 beta. The test seems going pretty well with Sun customer.

Well, I am not going for Sun merchandise, OpenSolaris CD, weird fashion shows and to make them see you dancing with macho bulge of belly. I want Sun to think beyond their products and encourage those communities who are making greater impact in java communities.  Lets make them participate, expand the subject line broader and make event adventurous.  Its almost impossible to allocate session to everyone but there need a little re-shift the way track are prepared.

Anyway, Kudos to  all the Sun folks making geekfest really successful despite of incessant pessimism of the global economic meltdown. I literally see every single hall was full of enthusiastic crowds. I guess its the largest conference center in India. Literally, Even It was not enough to accommodate.

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Recently, I was in Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad (Feb 26th -28th, 08). I saw a raising OpenSolaris community in India. So may reflects to Nepal. Here, until then, The Linux is so ubiquitous that you see none of the chaps running solars kernel. At least, In Sun Tech Day, I found all notebooks to tower running Solaris. There was a booth, not only gave away the Opensolaris CD but also manage to install it voluntarily.

From the start, I was on impression that Solaris an enterprise server. Surprisingly, Sun now trying to exploit the desktop realm. They did tweak Gnome and named it Java Desktop long back. They are coming up with new innovation in this field as they are always known for.

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Sticky note paper with a clear handwritten says the way to National science seminar complex, Indian institute of science (IIS) is blah blah. blah.! And there auto driver was bravo to ambush me. Quite good he excused me to pay more…lol! I know, you know, what the FOSS.IN is? The problem for me now is where the foss.in? This is damn famous one here..! I heard so, the speaker around the world roster reads like a “Who is Who” along, some discordian evangelist, FOSS journalist and famed programmer were invited. Something must be grand! I was just looking around no one was helping me either and Finally your basic instincts says…You see chicks wearing Google T-Shirt. peeking towards you and just look back of them, there a FOSS! A big banner hanging nearby the entrance..!
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Jut getting ready …oh gosh..! my pretty new mobile went off..! almost dead… dip straight into water and there I’ve no way out to take my 2nd days snaps. I am bit upset. My moto gone. Today’s mindset, get attend a good and making sense papers. A lots of choices and pretty hard to select in a straight row. Main hall and a center screen with a big KDE logo, just a left side, there stands a core KDE developer Aaron Seigo. It was about what’s new in KDE4? He was going through all new and interesting features. Worth to update, if I had now! I wonder why, why Gnome and KDE can’t unite together? Later with Aaron, I had 40 minutes bof camp session, I am writing more on this later.
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