What a ridiculous development. Sun Micro-systems was recently acquired by Oracle, and of course, the shenanigans begin! This is why I am so interested in Ebay’s acquisition of Magento. Oracle purchased a language they didn’t even develop, that was out under a copy left or GNU license. Turns out its not just the language, but the patents which Sun owns.
I don’t like the idea of Oracle owning MySQL and Java. How long before PHP is taken over? Quite frankly SAP and Oracle are a bunch of jokers. What they do, an in house team of programmers can do just as well. Only they charge ridiculous fees for their software, import cheap labor, and charge a giant markup for that as well. Its not like they have out of the box solutions. As a professional, I can do what SAP does with PHP/MySQL and not spend a dime on licensing, keep the jobs in the USA, and deliver a superior product.