Posted on April 21 elsewhere on the news on proposed Oracle's buyout of Sun.
The big news in the techcircle is the Oracles proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. In all probability it will go through.
Its again the signs of consolidation in the big (bad ?!) world of hitech/computing. IBM was the original bidder and as they harangued over few pennies, the ever predatory Larry Ellison snatched the deal. In one sense its good for the market as it can (sun-oracle combination) check the behemoth that IBM is. On the other hand analysts and Industry watchers are worried about the fact that now Java is actually *owned* by Oracle ! And not to mention about the MySQL the open source database that many SMB’s, academics and ISP’s prefer over that of the *commercial* Oracle.
Its a direct conflict of Interest for Oracle. And one will not be surprised if MySQL was given a quite burial, but I hope it will not happen beacuse of the widespread community base of the MySQL users.
And the other issue is Oracle never had experience in HW and with many enterprises using Sun HW they will be watching with crossed fingers on how Oracle’s strategy on this.
Overall, a good buy for Oracle, good competition for IBM, good value for Oracles shareholders, good suitor for Sun …….but for the Industry whether it is good or bad, have to wait and watch ……
Sivakumar
The big news in the techcircle is the Oracles proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. In all probability it will go through.
Its again the signs of consolidation in the big (bad ?!) world of hitech/computing. IBM was the original bidder and as they harangued over few pennies, the ever predatory Larry Ellison snatched the deal. In one sense its good for the market as it can (sun-oracle combination) check the behemoth that IBM is. On the other hand analysts and Industry watchers are worried about the fact that now Java is actually *owned* by Oracle ! And not to mention about the MySQL the open source database that many SMB’s, academics and ISP’s prefer over that of the *commercial* Oracle.
Its a direct conflict of Interest for Oracle. And one will not be surprised if MySQL was given a quite burial, but I hope it will not happen beacuse of the widespread community base of the MySQL users.
And the other issue is Oracle never had experience in HW and with many enterprises using Sun HW they will be watching with crossed fingers on how Oracle’s strategy on this.
Overall, a good buy for Oracle, good competition for IBM, good value for Oracles shareholders, good suitor for Sun …….but for the Industry whether it is good or bad, have to wait and watch ……
Sivakumar
