[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[John Dallman]

In article <unfn5d$19hl0$4 at dont-email.me>, ldo at nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 02:18:22 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
> > The Sun acquisition was based on the observation that many of 
> > Sun's customers were buying Sun machines running Solaris 
> > primarily to run Oracle's DBMS.
> Oracle bought Sun to get control of Java. Nothing more, nothing 
> less. After the acquisition, they essentially threw away everything 
> else.

If that was the case, why did they leave Java as open source, rather than
close it, as they did with Solaris? 

John