Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a recent FAQ released by Oracle outlines the plans for many of Sun's popular products like GlassFish, MySQL, and NetBeans. Many are worried at some of the possible avenues the decisions outlined could lead to, especially with respect to NetBeans. "What should have happened, Oracle should not have missed a beat and should have announced work on Oracle plugins for NetBeans and active Oracle support of NetBeans. This type of announcement would have brought a large and some-what skeptical NetBeans community much closer to Oracle. It would have been a big win for Oracle. NetBeans will continue to grow either way - but Oracle has missed a big chance to really change perceptions and at the same time move their tools to another level. What JDeveloper lacks is buzz, a wealth of community developed plugins, a wealth of support for other languages and a very, very large community. And of course it does not offer a platform in the NetBeans and Eclipse sense of the word. This is a huge missed opportunity for Oracle."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/09/1845250"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1845250/Oracle-Outlines-Plans-for-Sun-Products-Casts-Doubt-on-NetBeans?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XnkU8boNqAkQg5_HjA95sCB-ROg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/0ouAAtlQk7U" height="1" width="1"/

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