Oracle & NetBeans: Watch this!!!
Much more detail and insights than in the webcast I watched:
I got the impression that Oracle really have thoroughly analyzed the new entries to their stack. Ted is talking about the places where they want to intensify their work (Java & NB Platform) and the places where community should step in (scripting, emerging languages). That’s a little bit different from the Thomas Kurian story, where we see NetBeans as an IDE for scripting languages, but I guess Ted is closer to the actual technology.
I also like the fact that he’s talking about sharing Plugins between JDeveloper and NetBeans. I do believe this is not only words, because Ted is one of the guys behind JSR-198, a Specification for IDE interoperability that looks conceptually very familiar to NB platform developers.
And the most important part: He’s talking about the platform and the community. So they will eventually support the ongoing focus on the platform. In my eyes every investment in the platform is an investment in the community. Every penny spent here will pay back in contributions. And if they manage to improve, stabilize and document the APIs for language support & refactoring there’ll probably be much more contributions in terms of language support & plugins.
I really for the first time believe, that the Oracle-Sun Deal might turn out to be good for NetBeans. It seems they know better what they’ve got than many people inside Sun…
This makes my day… no… year 
“Say NetBeans Platform when you breave out” (shamelessly stolen from Geertjan) - way to go for Oracle, but a good start.
Comment by Sven Reimers
— 28. January 2010 @ 00:58
This is good for netbeans, but, say good bye to kenai.
This is one of the things that makes netbeans and I will be sad to see it go. If they are keeping java.net they should consider adding kenai’s functionality to it, this would really boost adoption of kenai’s features!
Comment by adam
— 28. January 2010 @ 05:24
Hi Toni!
I’ve a German summary:
http://www.sepix.de/blogs/blogrittner/blog/archive/2010/january/28/news_oracle_sun_java_developer_tools_strategy_und_netbeans/index.html
Best regards,
josh.
Comment by Aljoscha Rittner
— 28. January 2010 @ 07:16
Actually this is hell lot more optimistic than what we could expect from before-aquisition informations. I’m relieved - they even said something about platform and supporting the community.
Comment by psychollek
— 28. January 2010 @ 07:41
I am not sure about Kenai… They say they are going to take it for internal use and if successful, it will be made public (again?). So what is going to happen to kenai.com?
Comment by Jean-Marc Borer
— 28. January 2010 @ 08:41
Still very marketing styled presentation. Does he actually know that Zembly closed shop quite a while ago ? Why kill kenai ? I just started to move from sf.net to kenai……
but there is still hope
time for oracle to create a track in OSS in a positive fashion after the acquisition.
Comment by javadude
— 28. January 2010 @ 10:36