The most important thing was: who was going to retain the control over java?… in short, IBM has let passed by a great chance.
How this has happened, there were this steps:
- IBM offers an insuficient amount of money uppon Sun
- Sun looks for some other candidate
- IBM brokes negotiation when they know Sun is looking for someone else
- …tic tac… a couple of days/weeks without news
- Oracle take the chance and buy Sun
So IBM has losse a great chance to keep control over java and now Oracle has to merge new bussines -such a hardware or OS-
There’re more questions, what is going to happen with MySQL, with OID versus Directory Server from Sun? How hardware is going to be managed from Oracle? … and you may keep on with all those questions, but comming back to my main thought:
Oracle: 1 | IBM: 0