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Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

Edwin Kyalangalilwa — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:15:57 -0000

Good read, thanks. As application delivery moves to the cloud, Oracle could also use technology Sun is developing in this area.
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Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

tabldot yemek — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:04:07 -0000

Thanks a lot.

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

Engago team — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:58:39 -0000

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.

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

Unblock Facebook — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:15:19 -0000

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

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

José Mendes — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:34:12 -0000

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.

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

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Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

BeenThere-DoneThat — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:09:17 -0000

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.

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

PeterA650 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -0000

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

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

IT Rush — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:49:40 -0000

Hmm.. any idea on what to expect next?

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

jimmy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:38:06 -0000

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

Re: Oracle agrees to buy Sun Microsystems

Computer Howto — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:57:06 -0000

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.