Ha ha, obviously Tuesday when I implied today was the end of Sun I was getting way ahead of myself. While 62 percent of Sun’s outstanding shareholders did in fact vote in favor of the merger (prominent no-shows at the meeting: Jonathan Schwartz and Scott McNealy), there are still steps to be taken, not least of which is to get approval from the US Department of Justice and the EU.Unfortunately for me, there’s blessed little else going on Java-wise, but my eyes were drawn to an article from a couple of weeks ago about a quixotic anti-database alliance called NoSQL. It would probably be more accurate to call them an anti-relational database alliance, and to read the quotes their enemy number one is Oracle. Therefore, it was kind of intriguing to see SpringSource on the list of attendees to the NoSQL confab. No details here, but it does fit with SpringSource’s message of radical simplicity, even when said simplicity involves jettisoning long-time standards like Java EE and, well, RDBMSes. If Oracle is at heart a database company, and will seek to use Java to sell more databases, then SpringSource looking to create a database-less vision of Java is intriguing indeed. DatabasesTechnology Industry