> I'm so glad to see the end of Sun. That was a horrible
> company, and it's quite fitting that it should be devoured
> by Oracle.
>
Without Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org wouldn´t exist, and Stardivision Gmbh would be another "me too" developer of a closed source, Office wannabe with a market share similar to the Opera browser, instead of being the de-facto standard for Linux systems.
Without Sun Microsystems opposing Microsoft Passport, all our site passwords would be hosted at Microsoft´s servers by now.
I use Java apps on a daily basis, on my phone (GMail Mobile, Google Maps for Mobile), Azureus / Vuze P2P on my desktop, Java image Editor for bitmaps, etc.
Yes, I hold Sun in very high regard, unlike IBM which turned itself in just a services firm without anything resembling a software strategy.
Oracle´s Ellison said he´ll keep the OpenOffice and Java push, so I´m happy with that. I don´t particularly care much about the Sparc CPUs or Solaris, but I understand there´s a corporate market for that...
But, don´t get me started... ;-) FC