The Open Source Initiative have elected Simon Phipps, who recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors

Just a few months after Sun's acquisition by Oracle, James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products group, has left the company

ForgeRock has announced that Simon Phipps, ex-Sun Chief Open Source Officer and board member of the OSI and OSA, has joined its board as Chief Strategy Officer to develop and communicate the company's open source plans

Bryan Cantrill, one of the three developers behind Sun's DTrace technology, has left Oracle, joining the ranks of other Sun alumni who have moved on since Oracle's acquisition

In an interview with Builder AU Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, admits that Sun “screwed up” regarding open source. (The picture is of Phipps speaking in Bangalore from the official Sun FOSS.IN blog.) But he isolates the “screw-up” to 2001-2002, when Sun was still a proprietary company.

Oracle's acquisition of Sun raised a lot of questions about the future of Sun's core technologies. Oracle says that it is committed to Solaris and Java, but some open source advocates are concerned about the implications for OpenOffice.org and MySQL. Ars looks at how Oracle and members of the open source software community have responded to the acquisition.

A couple of days ago, Simon Phipps from Sun Microsystems said that the company ”screwed up“ when it comes to open source. Dana Blankenhorn opines that Sun is still screwing up. Here is the core of his argument.

Recently, there was an interesting rumour circulating that Oracle had a war chest of some $70 billion, and was going on an acquisition spree.

It appears Oracle is starting to experience some high profile departures from ex-Sun employees now that the acquisition has been finalized.