Smudge wrote:

This, and Microsoft's purchase this week of GitHub suggest that the growth area is in open source:

IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion

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I would recommend that everybody bail immediately and get ahead of the curve.  Sun has turned Java application development into something almost entirely un-deployable.