[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 10:07 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> 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?

It would have been practically impossible to do that.

There were other big companies with an interest in Java. If they had
closed it then IBM, Redhat, SAP etc. could have made a fork successful.

Not many big companies willing to invest heavily in Solaris when it
got closed. Commercial traditional Unix was loosing market share
fast. IBM and HP already had one of those.

Arne