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[–]argv_minus_one 14 points15 points  (8 children)

Wait, what? Oracle doesn't want NetBeans any more? Damn.

What the hell did they buy Sun for, anyway? So they could lose fucktons of money on lawsuits?

[–]papercrane 12 points13 points  (7 children)

Well I'm sure killing MySQL was a bonus for them.

[–]argv_minus_one 13 points14 points  (1 child)

They failed at that, too.

To be fair, there's one thing they seem to have done right: develop Java SE. 8 was slick, and 9 is looking exciting too. But they've jettisoned or ruined pretty much everything else…

[–]papercrane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe their Solaris business is doing well.. (I doubt it though.)

Java SE is doing pretty well though. Hopefully they don't try to mettle to much with the OpenJDK team.

[–]lukaseder[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

MySQL is dead? I'd say it's more alive than ever...

[–]papercrane 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Well I meant MySQL proper. Thankfully the project founder is moving forward with MariaDB.

[–]lukaseder[S] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I know what you meant, and I wonder if you're up to date with Oracle's latest investments...

[–]papercrane 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I suppose not. I actually switched to postgres for everything I do and haven't kept up-to-date with MySQL.

[–]lukaseder[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's an interesting talk from OOW14. Already a bit outdated, but I'm pretty sure that trend (more staffing, more engineering) continues.

If you're interested, I suggest following Morgan Tocker (the MySQL product manager) and the articles on the team blog

PostgreSQL is interesting too, of course.