{"id":2907,"date":"2009-04-20T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2009-04-20T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:00:45","slug":"oracle-buys-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/oracle-buys-sun.html","title":{"rendered":"Oracle buys Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/index.html\"><strong>Oracle<\/strong><\/a> has purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/\"><strong>Sun Microsystems<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is significant on many levels.\u00a0 Many of our library systems run on software or hardware from these companies.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exlibrisgroup.com\/category\/Voyager\">Voyager<\/a> library I used to work for used an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/database\/index.html\">Oracle database<\/a> running on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/solaris\/\">Sun Solaris<\/a> server.\u00a0 The clients (Circulation, Cataloging, Acquisitions, etc.) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iii.com\/products\/millennium_ils.shtml\">III&#8217;s Millennium<\/a> system run on <a href=\"http:\/\/java.com\/en\/\">Java<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JavaScript\"><\/a>Many web-based software platforms use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/\">MySQL<\/a> (an open-source database project owned by Sun), including many, many blogs (including this one) wikis and CMS.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a> as either their primary or as an additional office suite.<\/p>\n<p>I am not saying that we are at risk for losing these foundations of our library and internet software programs.\u00a0 The fact that OpenSolaris, Java, MySQL, and OpenOffice are all open source means that we can trust that they will be with us in some form for as long as there is a demand (a trust that cannot be equally placed with <strong>any<\/strong> closed source software, which can disappear with the collapse or acquisition of the company holding the software rights).<\/p>\n<p>What I am sure of is that we will see changes.\u00a0 Oracle has a strategy, or if it doesn&#8217;t, it will.\u00a0 Some of these programs will likely see greater support and resources (hopefully OpenOffice), others will likely see less (hopefully none of them).\u00a0 Some may become more focused towards a particular segment of the technology world (watch MySQL for this possibility).<\/p>\n<p>Look at what you use, and recognize that today marks a turning point for some of the software.\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully it is for the better.<\/p>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/04\/20\/oracle-wants-to-be-the-apple-of-the-enterprise-but-it-just-became-ibm\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/81006\/something-Delphic-here\">MetaFilter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle has purchased Sun Microsystems. This is significant on many levels.\u00a0 Many of our library systems run on software or hardware from these companies.\u00a0 The Voyager library I used to work for used an Oracle database running on a Sun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/oracle-buys-sun.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2917,2920,2922,2940,2943,2948,2951,2952,2982,2966,2979],"tags":[4476,3970,5356,4858,4475,4273,4818,4479,4478,4428,4477,3706,4474,4857,4481,4473,4856,4480,3636,4859],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquisitions","category-blogs","category-cataloging","category-ils","category-libraries","category-news","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-open-source","category-software","category-wiki","tag-closed-source-software","tag-iii","tag-ils","tag-internet-software-programs","tag-java","tag-javascript","tag-library-systems","tag-millennium","tag-mysql","tag-openofficeorg","tag-opensolaris","tag-oracle","tag-oracle-corporation","tag-software-rights","tag-sun-microsystems","tag-sun-solaris","tag-technology-world","tag-voyager","tag-voyager-library","tag-web-based-software-platforms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-KT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}