Sun Oracle Deal – Sometime Next Year?

I ran into this blurb in a Forbes article on the status of EU merger deals.

SECOND-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE: — U.S. software maker Oracle Corp to acquire the whole of computer hardware maker Sun Microsystems Inc (notified Aug. 3/deadline Sept. 3/in-depth investigation opened on Sept. 3/new deadline Jan. 19, 2010)

link: EU mergers and takeovers (Oct 9) – Forbes.com

The java world has been very quiet lately. I can only assume it is because they are trying to get the deal done. When is the last time we heard something about javafx, June?

You have to wonder if Sun(or it’s assets) can survive being out of the blogosphere for this long. I sure hope that we don’t have to wait until January to get updates (or additional oracle funding). With this prolonged period of uncertainty, it is hard to imagine that Sun is successfully hanging on to it’s talent. Maybe someone in the EU has it in for Sun. Or, maybe their bureaucracy is worse than ours(US). Either way, January is a long time away.