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Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 10:02 UTC (Tue) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828)
Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

I've seen a lot of people blogging that this is better than IBM; I remain a bit unconvinced: both Oracle and IBM are extremely good at doing the things which benefit them, and vice-versa. Oracle's luke-warm/non-existent interest in stuff like OOo in the past surely won't change much - they're not involved in ODF, they don't even support OOo integration with their projects.

Are Oracle going to be better or worse custodians of projects than Sun? Who knows; I suspect there will be little change. I don't see them spending time on things which won't earn them money, which probably puts OOo in most danger - but also the project which stands to gain the most from this deal, because if Oracle start pushing it into large enterprises it will quickly have to become a lot better than it is now.

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Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 22, 2009 18:15 UTC (Wed) by jmmc (guest, #34939) [Link]

> I've seen a lot of people blogging that this is better than IBM; I remain > a bit unconvinced:

my thoughts as well. I thought IBM was the better purchaser/match and still do (did). The fate of OOo was the first thought that struck me when I heard Oracle was the buyer. Imho, I might have trusted IBM engineering to refactor/document the OO codebase more so than Oracle. But indeed, as far as projecting OO into the SME enterprise, Oracle probably has the more forceful organization for that at this point. We'll see.

Monolithic code

Posted Apr 22, 2009 21:13 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Aw, if IBM were to refactor OOo as well as with Eclipse then we were doomed. I love the IDE but the code internals suck big time.