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One of Oracle's longest-serving senior team members, chief corporate architect Edward Screven, has announced plans to retire on a comfortable sum. Screven joined Oracle in 1986, famously leading the company's open source strategy since the 2009 buyout of Sun Microsystems, with which Big Red acquired development language Java …

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  1. Jou (Mxyzptlk) Silver badge

    "the idea Oracle would kill the open"

    "a very mysterious concept to us."

    Not really, as history shows. Oracle is known to kill anything open on a whim.

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    And the pool of people to replace Larry...

    Dwindles once again.

    As a former Oracle employee (hence anon), that really only leaves Clay to succeed Larry and that .... would not be good.

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      Re: And the pool of people to replace Larry...

      As another former Oracle employee (hence anon), the new Larry is probably Irish.

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  3. Xor007

    Sun did not own MySql

    MySQL and Sun where separate purchases. What they got from sun where Java, Solaris and Sparc processors

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      Re: Sun did not own MySql

      Sun acquired MySQL AB in 2008, Oracle acquired Sun in 2010.

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