[Info-vax] Oracle to Buy Sun

[IanMiller]

On Apr 20, 2:59 pm, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)"
<a... at nonymous.com> wrote:
> "IanMiller" <g... at uk2.net> wrote in message
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> news:7e281eb3-c169-473c-8969-1e85303238fc at d14g2000yql.googlegroups.com...
>
> >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" <g... at uk2.net> wrote in message
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> <news:7e281eb3-c169-473c-8969-1e85303238fc at d14g2000yql.googlegroups.com>...
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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.



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