How come nobody has written about the Oracle Sun deal yet?! With this latest acquisition, Oracle will be all over that Microsoft chart from Prof. Venkat's class. This NYTimes article talks about how enterprises now prefer to get all their software and hardware needs from a single company. Although, wouldn't this make you highly dependent on your provider? They say Oracle has taken over Sun to enter into the hardware business. But along with all those cloud computing servers, comes Sun's pretty impressive software. Java, on which many software systems and mobile platforms run (including Oracle's own middleware), comes with this deal. MySQL the popular and free database from Sun, which has been a pain for database providers like Oracle, is also under Oracle's control now. Oracle could very well choose to "kill MySQL from neglect". This could have an impact on all those technologies (especially open source), which use MySQL.
Oracle acted quickly after IBM's failed attempt to grab Sun, and has put itself in an advantageous position against IBM (which is a strong competitor with its DB2).
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