Oracle's purchase of Sun depicts another ritual dismantling of many great OSS projects. Anyone mildly interested in the growth of the Open Source community should be alarmed.
Consider the recent news of (essentially) the death of OpenSolaris, an arguably small but growing open source unix operating system forked from a real workhorse among unices: http://techie-buzz.com/foss/oracle-has-killed-opensolaris.html
Losing ZFS to Oracle is huge, as ZFS was, in my opinion, one of the big sellers to OpenSolaris. Kiss it goodbye.
But, we're not done. MySQL's InnoDB, which some considered the number one competitor in performance web application RBDMS's on *nix. Too bad.
A little-talked about lightweight and utilitarian BerkeleyDB went to Oracle, used, for example, at Amazon for a slick migration of large volumes of content between farms.
Now, Java and the recent suit by the money-hungry, Open Source killers: http://www.infoworld.com/t/intellectual-property/oracles-android-lawsuit-pandoras-box-serious-evils-359
Lest we forget OpenOffice was Sun's, one of the really useful products to use for interoperability within an Enterprisey Microsoft Office environment. I don't see much of a future for OpenOffice as FOSS, either.
We have Oracle to thank for all of this and, predictably more to come. From a corporate husk based with expensive licensing structures, large consulting contracts, and governmental lock-ins, it's no surprise they're not about advancing technology, but advancing the shareholder's stock price.
Just do a search on "oracle research" - they discuss their great cash cow - school systems lock-in to Oracle products. Compare that to "google research" or "microsoft research".