Has Oracle broken its promises to open source?
Now that Sun has been inside Oracle for a few months I believe the skeptics are being proven right. While some analysts say they’re not surprised at recent job cuts, they are pretty deep, in line with the predictions Ellison called “garbage.” *The Wall Street Journal *has estimated the job cuts will cost Oracle$1 billion](http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100604-712604.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines)in severance. Sales are slowing.
Worse may be to come. Java is fragmenting. Solaris is increasingly being treated as proprietary, not as open source. Sam Dean of OStatic agrees with me that Open Office is drifting. CNET’s James Urquhart sees mySQL as a minus, not a plus, for the cloud. The M in the LAMP stack is falling behind.