The King is dead. Long live the King.
Today, the European commision has finally approved Oracle’s purchase of Sun. As a former Sun employee some years ago I feel kind of sad of seeing the end of one of my favourite companies, and one of the more innovative, just remember: NFS, Solaris, SPARC, Java, SunRays, E10K… cool, uh? Yeah, that was Sun.
As a techie, a Unix lover, a geek… I’m sad. I liked Sun, I worked for Sun and I loved the projects, how they embrace open source, their visionary spirit, just remember the famous motto “the network is the computer”…
Let’s see what happens now with MySQL, OpenSolaris or Java.
