Bloomberg reported that San Francisco-based analyst Brent Thill has predicted that Oracle is likely to cut half the jobs at Sun. This was widely reported across all tech publications, causing quite a flutter . However Sun today in an internal memo has got back saying -

Oracle has updated the Sun Acquisition FAQ. The FAQ now tells us of Oracle’s plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, MySQL, OpenOffice & open source.

The European Commission has set 3rd Sep  as an antitrust review date by when it will decide whether to clear Oracle’s proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems or launch a full fledged four month probe.

JRuby guys leave Sun, citing the uncertainty surrounding Sun’s acquisition by Oracle and Oracle’s support for the JRuby language.

Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz had talked of an Apple like Java App Store a few days back. The store has become a reality, a lot sooner than expected. The Java Store is meant to be the best online destination for interesting, useful and entertaining Java software applications.

Today, Oracle announced that Oracle JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) achieved record performance for a four socket Intel-based system on two SPECjbb2005 benchmarks, an industry-standard measurement of server side Java-based application performance. Both results, achieved on Dell PowerEdge R900 servers with Intel Xeon processors, beat similarly configured Sun JVM SPECjbb2005 benchmark results; demonstrating the performance capabilities of Java-based applications running on Oracle Fusion Middleware.