Yesterday, I watched the Oracle + Sun Strategy Update Webcast. It was certainly a surprising event -- surprisingly positive for the future of Sun and Java/JVM technologies, in my view. The promises Larry Ellison made at last year's JavaOne have been effectively redoubled in a way I myself could not have expected. The plan and expectation really is that Sun will quickly become a very profitable group within Oracle. And Java technologies will receive significant new investment -- not because investment in Java is expected directly to earn Oracle profits, but because the real money from Java is made through middleware sales, and in order for Oracle's middleware products to remain top notch, highly-scalable, state of the art, etc., the Java/JVM platform must move forward. Stagnation of the Java platform is not an option.
These are some of the things I heard while watching the webcast. For those of you who didn't have the opportunity to view the webcast, see my little Sun + Oracle Strategy Links (from Twitter) post.
I tweeted during the webcast (isn't that the only way to cover live technology events today?). Here are my tweets from the webcast (in time-forward order):
Oracle + Sun webcast: a big focus on "We're hiring!" - across the board: sales, Solaris development, engineering new chips...
"we're hiring!" -- the perfect statement for immediately building confidence among both customers and employees.
JavaOne will become a global, travelling conference: U.S., Brazil, India, ...
Oracle/Sun will invest in the Java developer community as well as specific Java technologies
Java SE 7 goals: multiple languages, mulit-core support. Oracle JRockit will be applied/integrated with HotSpot.
evolve Java EE 6: profiles important for customization; GlassFish will continue to be the Java EE reference implementation
WebLogic will continue to be the high-end app server for enterprise sales
Java ME: unify ME APIs with Java SE APIs; runtime optimization; optimize power consumption; focus on ME operability on different platforms
different JVM models based on platform (enterprise, ME, etc.)
significant investment in JavaFX; focus on designers; fusion of DHTML, JavaScript, Java, JavaFX capabilities within browser environment
NetBeans continues as Lightweight IDE: focus on Java EE, ME, scripting; mobile development; reference implementation IDE for Java EE
Hudson makes the presentation; will also be integrated with JDeveloper; Eclipse also remains important
EE / GF enhancement: microkernel support; non-blocking I/O; Metro; lightweight, rapid development and deployment
WebLogic: remains focus for enterprises; WebLogic and GF will share technologies. SOA: Open ESB will continue to be supported, among others
OpenSSO will see continued investment; OpenDS will be maintained.
speaking of Sun/Oracle, I'm right now remotely logged into a Solaris machine enhancing an app whose data flow is managed by an Oracle db
Oracle will hire 2000 people, and only about 1000 will be laid off, as part of the merger consolidation
arry highlights tape archive/backup as being very important (it is in the data center I work in, certainly)
Forrester: can Oracle make more money from Java? Larry: where revenue comes from is less important than the fact that $ is made
Larry: Java makes money mostly through sales of middleware. Hence, it's critical to continue to develop and enhance Java.
Oracle's presence in the phone / devices realm will be the Java software that phones/devices run on
Larry humorous on the "cloud computing" phrase -- today everything is "cloud computing" so how can you possibly be against it? I agree!
Retweet from oracletechnet: Ellison: The only thing new about cloud computing is the word "cloud" - it's just a computer attached to the Internet
Oracle sure is punctual: a major 5-hour event starts and ends within a few minutes of the publicized times!
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