A few days ago the EU had approved the takeover of Sun microsystems by Oracle. This brings to an end the long awaited acquisition. There have been several blog entries about the fate of the open source projects that Sun currently supports. I have read some of the arguments put forward about why developers should move away from / use certain projects.

However I also find myself in a dilemma. I installed GlassFish and deployed a few apps on it recently. I found it interesting and was impressed with it within a few minutes of using it. MySql is also a great open source project. There are many tools built around the database and it competes well with PostGresql. Netbeans is also a great IDE and supports glassfish.

I am very tempted to continue using these projects for the development of new pet projects and to learn new specs. Right now I expect the support for these projects to continue for a few years, and I do not really expect to see great innovation of any sort. The best case scenario is that Oracle leverages the usefulness of these projects and decides to keep them alive while giving them healthy financial support. One is allowed to dream

So it boils down to the following question. “Will you as a developer / architect / <Insert technical position here> continue to use projects like GlassFish, Netbeans, MySql etc ?” Or are you looking to move away to other open source projects immediately ? Voice your thoughts through this poll

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