Oracle Announced the Outline Strategy on Integration of Sun

Oracle has announced  the outline strategy and its commitment  on Sun Microsystems integration into Oracle. It was in a Webcast and for those who missed it, could get it from the website.

This is the link from Oracle website.

We already noticed some additions on links in the Oracle Technology Website (http://otn.oracle.com) which includes newly added Sun's technology portfolios.

EU Commission Approval of Sun Microsystems Acquisition by Oracle: Lesson Learned

Yesterday James A. Goosling, the founder of Java platform, put a picture in his blog: "So long, old friend...".
After the EU Commission approved Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) acquisition by Oracle Corp (NASDAQ: ORCL), Oracle expects that Russia and China will also accept it. The main foreseen obstacle to the agreement was the EU Commission approval. Now that it has been approved, the acquisition is expected to go smoothly.

Some people began speculating on the fate of open source projects, which nurtured by Sun, yet they don't believe that Oracle will give enough support for those open source projects. One high profile fear was from Monty Widenius, the founder of MySQL, which after selling the company to Sun left MySQL (the company), and forked a new database project: MariaDB. He campaigned to prevent the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle. Now we see the result, it seems that he lose the campaign. Some voices also speculate about the fate of OpenOffice, Glassfish, etc after the acquisition.

This matter once again prove: "a technology is good, but we also need to make money". Of course Sun Microsystems is not the first to go down, there were a lot of dead carcasses of open source companies ended up acquired by profitable commercial companies that sell their proprietary products.

Sun is highly respectable company, which produced a lot of very good products. All hail respect to the company that bred the Java technology and platform, which took over the world. Yet, after this high profile achievement, the company still need to make money to bring value to the shareholders.

Lesson Learned: Companies Need To Make Money In Order To Sustain the Business

I guess this serves as reminder for those people (including me) who wants to make a company based on sophisticated technology, either open source or closed source; take note, when we start a company, we also need to make money.

Now that Wikipedia site had grown that big, the non-profit model required it to campaign for more money to sustain its operation.

Sun Developers Day 2008 at Singapore

Today I attended the Sun Developers' Day. My office is not in the habit of sending people to such events, so I have to be a proactive person, take a one day leave to attend this event.

"Sun Developer Day 2008 brings together visionaries, leading experts and developers to seize the next wave of technical innovation through Open Source".

Trends that were presented are in the topics of JavaFX, MySQL, OpenSolaris.

This is my first time attending Sun Developers' Day. There were Sun Developers' Day events in Jakarta, but I didn't manage to have time to attend one of them. 

Some thing that interest me are: JavaFX, VirtualBox, new OpenSolaris eye candy, MySQL tuning, and Solaris DTrace, JDK 6 update 10, Grails.

Matt Thompson, manager of the Sun Technology Evangelist group,  gave an opening message. 

Among the speakers were:

Chuk-Munn Lee, Senior Developer Consultant and Technology Evangelist for Technology Outreach at Sun Microsystems in Singapore.

Joey Shen (Zhuo-Li, Chinese), Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems based in Beijing, China.

Peter Karlsson, Solaris Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. 

Raghavan Srinivas, CTO of Technology Evangelism at Sun Microsystems.

This even also intertwinned with JavaJive competition final between universities from Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Previously local competitions have been held in their respective countries. The final presentation brought was won by team from Thailand.

Installing Solaris 10 on SunFire V210

Because most of my time, I have spent in the development, this event is considered a rare occasion: a hands-on experience on plain Sun SPARC based 64-bit machine. This time I have it all in my power: SunFire V210. A machine which you could install, reinstall, configure, reconfigure the way you want it.
In my opinion, it was much easier to install Solaris 10 on Sun's machine, than it was to install one on a virtual machine, or even on an ordinary PCs. The Auto Layout Disk went smoothly, no failure is necessary.
This is actually a rather old machine, used to test the installation script. The client doesn't want to go to their client and install the application only to find out that there's something missing in the installation script. So we fetch out a machine similar to the production platform: a SunFire V245. It is of a bigger size (2U, I think) compared to V210 (1U).

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