Oracle and Apple: This Week’s Big Tech News and What it Means for Linux

“The tech industry is jumping this week. On the consumer side,
Apple finally took the wraps off the poorly named but interesting
iPad. On the enterprise side, Oracle finally had the chance to lay
claim to Sun and spell out what it’s planning to do with the
spoils.

“While Apple’s announcement got most of the attention,
Oracle+Sun is of more interest to most in the Linux community.
Specifically, after waiting something like nine months to move
forward with the acquisition, it’s finally real and Oracle is
discussing its roadmaps for all of Sun’s product lines. Or most of
them, anyway.

“Not Many Details

“For five hours of presentation and discussion, Oracle didn’t
put a lot of actual details forward on what it plans to do.”

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