What will Oracle do with Sun’s open-source software?
Now that Oracle owns Sun, what will happen to all of the open-source software under Sun? These projects include MySQL, OpenSolaris, and OpenOffice. One thing is for certain, that former Sun employees will be laid off, but the number is not know. The best guesses put the number at around 1000 and likely most will be from the open-source divisions. Two former products have been cut, Project Wonderland and Project Kenai.
Overall, OpenOffice will be the most likely to survive as Oracle doesn’t have any competing products. MySQL is a toss-up because Oracle makes their own database software, but it is widely used. OpenSolaris will likely be cut from getting resources. It will be up to the community to possibly take over the code.
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