Sun Microsystems today has agreed to be bought by Oracle in a $7.4bn deal, just two weeks after IBM’s bid for Sun fell apart. The acquisition gives Oracle some powerful assets to attack Microsoft and IBM on new fronts.
This deal will give Oracle control of MySQL (the “M” in the LAMP development platform”), and a lower-end competitor to Oracle’s flagship database product. Oracle also gains control of Java, which is the software platform that Oracle’s Fusion Enterprise Applications due to be released in 2010 will run on. Open Office, the open source alternative to Microsoft Office, is now owned by the world's largest Enterprise Applications company.
Sun manufactures servers based on the SPARC chips and the Solaris operating system. I have been told that in the past Oracle has built its database on Sun servers, and ported it to other platforms. Oracle may be looking to achieve more vertical integration with the hardware that it runs on. That thought seems to be supported by this quote from Larry Ellison:
The acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle plans to engineer and deliver an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Customers benefit as their system integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 April 2009 07:49.
News yesterday about Oracle buying SUN, is really sad. Oracle will do proper monopoly now. I am not sure what will happen to other companies as everything is Oracle Umbrella now.
My background is in PeopleSoft and I see now that Oracle has started putting its stuff in there. In one of the interview, I asked same questions now, about Fusion etc. I dig in websites and found interesting new questions being asked for peoplesoft. One of the website - http://www.itwisesolutions.com/PsftQuiz.html , which is having latest stuff.
-Larry