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IBM Could "Reinvent" Java: Mills
IBM Software chief Steve Mills said IBM has a long time to worry about Oracle’s potentially iron grip on Java licensing
Dec. 1, 2009 06:30 AM
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Interarbor Solution principal analyst Dana Gardner had a drink with IBM Software chief Steve Mills last week. He said Mills thinks that the Oracle-Sun deal will go through but that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is buying Sun because he doesn't "understand the hardware business" and won't get his money's worth at the $9.50 a share Oracle is proposing to pay for it.
Well, what else is Mills (pictured on the main screen at JavaOne below, behind Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz) going to say; IBM supposedly walked on the deal.
Anyway, Gardner got Mills to talking about Java and Mills remarked that IBM has a long time to worry about Oracle's potentially iron grip on Java licensing because its renewal is years off and then Gardner made an interesting observation: that IBM had invented Java for the server for Sun and that it could reinvent it like making Apache Harmony a "Java doppelganger."
Of course, if Oracle fails to close on Sun and Sun goes belly up, Sun's IP will go to the block.
About Maureen O'GaraMaureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
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