You could wonder? What is happening in the Oracle halls after the acquisition of Sun and Java? I must admit that as an MSFT .netter I haven’t been following the Java community for a veeeery long time, so I am not really sure how “healthy” it is, but my general understanding has been that Java and the platform has been moving more and more towards the Open Source, GPL licensing policy.
I remember reading something about fears for discontinuity of Java from Oracle, but this is not likely. Oracle is most certainly trying to figure out how to make money out of Java. Suing Google is one way of making money out of Java. What could be another way is to make Android go away leaving only one major java based mobile phone operating system left, Research In Motion (RIM) and the Blackberry.
Stephen Jannise, an ERP market analyst at Manufacturing Software Advice
has been following Oracle and had a close look at Oracle’s Mergers and Acquisitions. One of the companies he has nominated for merge/acquisition is in fact RIM, so could this be the angle? Push out competition, acquire RIM and then “own” the whole java developer community?
The Software Advice article is informative and can give some insight in the head of the troll. My vote on the next merge or acquisition is on RIM.
Is Oracle trying to strangle one of the two major java based Mobile OS’s?
