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How Will Oracle Handle Sun’s Open-Source Commitments?

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An open-source community expert isn’t convinced that Oracle, the prospective new owner of MySQL, Java and a host of other open-source enhancement projects, will place the same kind of commitment into the community that Sun Microsystems does.
– With the April 20 acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, here is an
impending change of guard involving the open-source community and its largest
enterprise supporter.

Sun has harbored more open-source projects and developers and had developed a
larger outside community than any other ma…