Jonathan Carter’s latest post, aggregated on Planet Ubuntu, made note of the announcement posted at Sun.com about the agreement made between Sun and Oracle. Good news to Sun’s shareholders who got an immediate $2.50/share jump in price today, but the greatest concern in the Linux community will be how this merger will impact the development of the many major open source applications we use today.

Sun Mircosystems is responsible for OpenOffice.org, MySQL, VirtualBox, OpenSolaris, and JAVA to name a few. If the past proposed merger with IBM had gone through, these applications might have been safely earmarked for the open source community. Under Oracle’s leadership, things could possibly be different.

We’ll just have to see how it all plays out.

EDIT: Ars Technica just posted an excellent article about how this may impact the future of open source.

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