[Info-vax] OT: Oracle to Buy Sun

[Michael Austin]

IanMiller wrote:
> 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?

Lots of scenarios here...
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Linux
Oracle Sparc

Has some interesting ramifications WRT to the new Oracle/HP Exadata 
servers (Hardware/Linux/Oracle/RAC/??? parallel data warehouse server - 
BTW-faster than Teradata or Niteeza servers by orders of magnitude)