If Oracle goes bankrupt in the future, what would you like to see as the destination for some of its products?
Inspired by this post by Ed Zitron on Bluesky, I wondered if Oracle would file for bankruptcy in the future, whether due to poor decisions, millions in losses in sectors that failed to meet their targets, the loss of lawsuits filed by users and/or customers, or other reasons.
What fate would you like to see for the products offered by this company?
Oracle database should have only one destination: The garbage bin
Java is under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, but realistically it is likely to end up being bought by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Meta or Apple.
Oracle Solaris is likely to be absorbed by the Illumos Foundation.
Just as Oracle ZFS is likely to be absorbed by the OpenZFS Project.
Man saying Oracle Solaris just put a bad taste in my mouth. As a once Sun fanboy that loved SPARC i am sad now.
So... nothing of significance.
We will finally own JavaScript. Which is hilarious.
J# and J++ have entered the chat
I like get triggered. This reminds me that I'm alive.
Does Oracle own JavaScript? I thought JavaScript was developed by Netscape and that Oracle claimed to own the rights to Java, which is not the same thing.
Yep they inherited it from Sun. JavaScript the name.
JavaScript.tm
Sun Microsystems rises from the ashes like a Phoenix
I think before this happens, a company would purchase Oracle, because all the tech they have. Oracle has a lot of enterprise and database stuff that I'm not familiar with. The only thing that counts to me is Java. So which companies has the money and knowledge and interest to buy Java rights?
I'm not sure if this would be a good idea, but I can see Google to buy Java. The Android system is based on Java and they need the stability of the rights to not get in conflict with Oracle or any other company again. Also this would give Java some better development I guess.
It will be bought by Google and Java will be sunsetted in 6 months.
Google would probably buy them and destroy any value that Oracle had left. Or Microsoft would buy them since Microsoft wants to be the new IBM. They would love those yearly service contracts.
Oracle NoSQL Database is released under the CDDL or Apache license
Java being bought by JetBrains and ending up merging Java and Kotlin
The rest in the trash
Jetbrains Java would be the best outcome. They're already heavily invested in Java and in the community.
Java will be stewarded by Eclipse foundation.
Solaris will become stewarded by illumos.
Zfs by openzfs.
Destroyed, never to be seen again.
Well maybe virtualbox could be spun out first.
Hell
The bin
Oracle owns Cerner which is the largest healthcare IT provider. I believe by a wide margin...?
For them to disappear with it
I'm OOTL, what's the thing with Oracle?
For their databases:
Load up their software on prison computers, force former employees to use it daily.