Ok Ok so this is a little late to enter this fray.
But I seriously don't know if I'm all that thrilled with Oracle bailing out Sun.
What will become of Netbeans for one. Having used Eclipse for a while and abandoning Netbeans a while back. Due to performance issues, I have found myself using Netbeans more and more frequently since the beginning of last year again. As much as I would like to prefer eclipse, netbeans is just mmm so ... mmm... is smooth, the right way to describe it?
And what about the beloved GlassFish??? will the water be sucked out of the bowl and tipped into another lame application server that Oracle has acquired down the line? Only time will tell, I guess.
Is Java doomed to be released as a pure open source project with no guiding hand? Am I missing the link to dedicated funds for a project and a project that is only part of a community effort?
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and use it at home and work, but to see the painful progress of our beloved OS onto the desktop, smacks of lack of funding and interest in things that the so-called every day user needs and wants. Are we all doomed to start writing code in *gasp* silverlight, flex or heaven forbid .net???? I'd rather be a pair of panty hose on a drainpipe keeping the rain from leeking into the house. Yes indeed I said it, I'd much rather go back to writing PERL applications anyday, over those other alternatives.
So lets hope, for hopes sake, that this acquisition is not the end all, of all that we hold dear. (was that too many alls in that sentence or what!!!)
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