Re: The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

From the article:

*developerWorks:* So I'm sure everybody wants to know your thoughts about
Oracle ownership of Sun now and what that means as it relates to Java. Can
you share at least something about that?

*Gray-Donald:* Sure. Well, I think in the short term, I don't think we're
going to see too many changes. I mean both IBM and Oracle have really
well-established product roadmaps and we're not going to change on a dime. I
think in the longer term, certainly what we'd like to see is Oracle engage
in some more open and participatory JCP [Java Community Process™]
activities. I mean, they've been consistently advocating this sort of
approach in their JCP dealings over the years, so that's great to have
heard.


Would be interesting to learn if IBM's stance has changed at all on this
(i.e. they "hope" Oracle does the right thing - YIKES!!!!)

I guess if I was Larry Ellison I would view IBM as my biggest competitor and
also my biggest contributor to the open tools/languages/middleware that they
now own. Thanks for pointing that article out.


Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron,

Wow, that's a troubling move by part of the ASF, although maybe it was
somewhat predictable, as Sun never got around to really defining Java as an
Open Source language and, of course, Oracle wasn't to let go one of Sun's
most important assets...

I think that, as IBM did put a lot of its development's eggs in Java's
basket, their attitude seems to has been a little ostrich-like (head in
sand
- "this won't affect me") . Check out this developer works article:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int041910-java7.html

<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int041910-java7.html>I
wonder if this will make Oracle "harden" its stance regarding Java, aid its
use by its competitors?

Interesting times ahead....


Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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