Oracle Set to buy Sun

Oracle is all set to buy Sun.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363

It will be interesting to see how hard they push everyone to an Oracle DB on a Solaris platform. Also what they do with their control of JAVA.

It will also be interesting to see what happens to Oracle's partnership with HP, given that Oracle will soon own a direct hardware competitor to HP.

Oracle wanted Java - and they now own it.

My guess is that to appease all the hardware vendors (who would otherwise now view Oracle as a competitor) - they'll likely spin off the hardware portion of Sun - maybe so that IBM can pick it up ?

Without doubt, $7Bn is completely worth purchasing Sun given the fact that you get ALL rights behind Java. It might be overkill for Oracle to have done this - but it has strengthened every single application that Oracle owns now. Notice that almost every other tech company fell today after the announcement ? Everyone from Cisco to Apple fell in trading...

HOWEVER, what will the SEC make of this ? Larry will say its just getting into Hardware (of course, he's learned from past mistakes - he doesn't care about the hardware) - but the Monopolies commission will have to now look carefully at Oracles position in the marketplace...

I envisioned this two years ago. Everyone I told this too said I was nuts. I was in a biker bar at the time, so I should have considered my audience. I don't always think these things through wisely. Anyway, I received a black eye and a broken arm. Man those shots of Makers Mark were good.

Max

You're nuts....

Actually - I was wondering about how Oracle is going to upset SAP over Java licensing now. Luckily Java made their JDK Open Source in 2007 - so its now protected in the community - had that NOT happened, Larry could have just decided to stop companies like SAP from using Java unless they paid a fortune !!!