I can see why they are doing this, as I can remember when Sun (680×0 based?) servers running Solaris were the market leaders in the 90s (and those coding apps for Solaris presumably would have to pay licensing fees)
a lot of that share has been taken away by intel-based boxes running various
forms of Linux and open source software..
it may not be so bad as Sun already own Java and that isn’t doing too badly.
Better than Oracle (spit) buying MySql anyway..
