DISQUS

Computer Howto · 7 months ago

Holy Cow, now Oracle will be competing server hardware with IBM head to head, and definitely it will prioritize Sun support for Oracle db, I wnder what they will do with Linux support.

jimmy · 7 months ago

I hope they don't change the licensing with MySQL.

itrush · 7 months ago

Hmm.. any idea on what to expect next?

Peter Antypas · 7 months ago

It's funny how decades ago the computing industry was vertical: Every major vendor owned the full stack (Unisys, Digital, IBM, etc). When a company bought into a vendor, they were locked for life. Then the PC revolution came, and the industry turned horizontal: Different companies specialized in different components of the computing stack.

Oracle and Sun were both founded in the tail end of the vertical era and never really adapted to the PC revolution. In fact, they made a ridiculous effort to convince enterprises to adopt their "thin clients". My prediction: They will merge into a dinosaur that will try to feed itself by moving "upmarket" and will eventually be disrupted by utility cloud computing, SaaS, etc

BeenThere-DoneThat · 7 months ago

Being from a ISV being bought by a Hardware company, does give the image of us (software) NOT supporting other hardware equally, BUT, in truth, our support for all the platforms is still the same.
Granted, our software is modified to work with our parent companies hardware in a tighter integration, but, the integration to other hardware has not been compromised in any way.
I believe Oracle will still support its other customers just as well (or as badly it currently gives, whichever the case may be to some), as it currently does. It DOES, however, give Oracle a integrated Solution IF people want to buy it.
For Existing Users of SUN/Oracle, it should help immensly on support requests. Oracle will have to grow and grow fast to support the new environment.

burun estetiği · 7 months ago

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José Mendes · 7 months ago

Oracle, having rights over java and their associated apps like glassfish, and so on... Not to mention MySQL... I believe that either they take caution on their future actions or, the disbelieve about Microsoft will pass also into Oracle. I like Oracle, they seem to be one of the most professional companys in the world. I hope they dont forget the principles where this all comunity (java) is built on... and the persons around it or it will be just another big company.

Unblock Facebook · 7 months ago

I wonder what will happen to MySQL now that Oracle will be owning, I just wish they won't kill it.

Engago team · 7 months ago

When the world is turning to cloud computing (AWS with S3 and EC2), why buy a server company ("the network is the computer") as a software/data base company?

Is java still so powerful seen the ever increasing number of Ruby on Rails applications (Twitter, 37 Signals, ...)

Oracle has the policy of making you pay for any software.
SUN had the policy of giving away free a lot of software.

tabldot yemek · 1 month ago

Thanks a lot.