Now that an era has passed then I thought I’d write up a list things that you can do if you want to use open source variants of projects now maintained by Oracle.
MySQL is now also maintained as maria-db. Today I switched my home mysql server to maria-db using the instructions here .
The JDK is now opensource and can be retrieved by issuing “sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk” on debian.
openoffice now has an accelerated development cycle at go-oo
opensso is now maintained by forgerock in the OpenAM project.
Oh yes. For those of you that have been using netbeans , I would recommend you take a look at eclipse . (Oh .. eclipse? .. now I get it)