[DigeratiPrime]

Wow didn't expect Oracle, I thought an IBM acquisition made sense...

http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html

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On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

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.

What will this mean for OpenOffice, Solaris, VirtualBox, MySQL, Java, SPARC???

[CoffeeFiend]

DigeratiPrime, on Apr 20 2009, 10:56 PM, said:

Wow didn't expect Oracle, I thought an IBM acquisition made sense...

Same here. Some serious changes are bound to happen. Oracle (a large company who sells very expensive software) buys another who gives away all of its software and sells pricey hardware. Strange move.

DigeratiPrime, on Apr 20 2009, 10:56 PM, said:

What will this mean for OpenOffice, Solaris, VirtualBox, MySQL, SPARC???

Exactly what I had in mind (others too like Java, Netbeans, xVM, ZFS and so on). Likely, some projects will take the backseat or just be left to slowly die (arguably in some cases, it wouldn't be that sad)

They probably want to sell very-high-end (SPARC T2-powered?) Sun servers with Solaris+Oracle on 'em, probably along with more expensive middleware, expensive support and everything else that goes with it (like a price ag that's out of this world)

It'll be interesting to keep an eye on them for sure. Not that I really use either companies' products mind you.