[Info-vax] Oracle to Buy Sun

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

"IanMiller" <gxys at uk2.net> wrote in message 
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> http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
>
> "SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:
> JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have
> entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire
> Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is
> valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's
> cash and debt. "
>
> What does this mean?



"IanMiller" <gxys at uk2.net> wrote in message 
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  http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
  "SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:
  JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have
  entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire
  Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is
  valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's
  cash and debt. "
  What does this mean?




?More Oracle databases run on the Solaris Sparc than any other system,? said 
Ellison, noting Linux was second. ?We?ll engineer the Oracle database and 
Solaris operating system together. With Sun we can make all components of 
the IT stack integrated and work well.? 
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598&tag=nl.e539

That sounds a LOT like Rdb & VMS used to be.


MySQL will be de-emphasized.
It means that they'll kill Rdb fast - and with it a large portion of the 
remaining installed VMS base.

Sybase will have a near-death experience in the next year or so, probably in 
the sme way as Sun just has.

Of all the remaining large-scale hardware systems manufacturers, IBM, 
Oracle/Sun, and HP, two of them own multiple RDBMS products (DB2/Informix) 
(Oracle/MySQL/Rdb), and one owns none (NonStop doesn't count). It's 
beginning to sound a lot like competitive disadvantage to me.