Thoughts on IBM buying out Sun? / Future of Java

[agent_paul]

The last week or 2 theres been news that IBM will buy Sun microsystems (along with it Java) and with this news theres been a lot of talk about what would happen to Java if that were to happen.

So what id like to know is, what are you thoughts about this possible buy out? Do you think its a good thing? will we finally get a decent competitor against Microsoft / .Net?

what would you think will happen to the Java ecosystem? would it just die and leave developers re-skilling?

Just an open thread looking for thoughts and feelings

thanks

 

[agent_paul]

Hi Smit,

i hope that would be true if that were to happen. but there are apparently quite a few cases (im told) in the past where IBM buys out a company and ends up totally trashing it (the only one i can remember seeing in that list was lotus notes or something like that).

if everything does go down the plug hole, then we're all doomed