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Java EE != Java

It sounds like all their Sparc hardware folks have been laid off, too. Most news stories seem sketchy about the details, but there are posts like this:

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/P3fbgtN#wih

Sun owned MySQL at the time; Oracle bought them for that.

Acquiring all the rest of the Sun stuff (SPARC, Solaris, Java, StarOffice, VirtualBox, etc) was a side-effect of the MySQL acquisition.

That is incredibly depressing to think about on many levels.