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Java Industry News 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
By: Maureen O'Gara
Dec. 1, 2009 06:30 AM
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.
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