BREAKING: Oracle Buying Sun for $7.4 Billion

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]zingam[/nom]You don't read any license agreements ever, don't you?[/citation]
Ofcourse I don't - but that's not the point really.
The point is, that if the openoffice owners change, they might foget how to support their software - like the rest of the opensource industry. And thus the management might reconsider and once again change their minds.

 

[jsloan]

[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]I am just glad to see Oracle spend some of the mounds of cash they have been hording.[/citation]

they are not like microsoft which is sitting on a pile of cache, in fact they actually don't have all that much cache, sure they have 11.29B, but they owe 11.24B! Now they do have a nice net profit 5.74B and good profit margins 24.29%

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ORCL

Microsoft has 20.30B in cash and only owes 2.00B, not that is nice pile of cash. Plus they have net provits of 17.23B and profit margin of 27.80%

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT

what oracle has been doing of late is buying losers and has beens, large companies like Sun and BEA.

 

[eddieroolz]

I don't exactly know what Oracle is, or what that company does, but all I know is that it's helping my virtual stock simulator's Sun shares to jump in price, and I'm happy!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]I don't exactly know what Oracle is, or what that company does, but all I know is that it's helping my virtual stock simulator's Sun shares to jump in price, and I'm happy![/citation]
Oracle is a software developer primarily providing corporate level software. They're a bit like foxconn - if you're just a consumer, you won't know them.

 

[p05esto]

JAVA and MySQL will be going bye-bye, that's my prediction. I like .NET?SQL much more anyhow, JAVA is ridiculously hard to learn in comparrision.

 

[salem80]

Nice Job Scott McNealy ...sell it to Oracle...and Kill MySQL ..
all for some cents per Share ..

 

[jsloan]

[citation][nom]salem80[/nom]Nice Job Scott McNealy ...sell it to Oracle...and Kill MySQL ..all for some cents per Share ..[/citation]

yeah, i heard the news earlier today, its clear that mcneally was behind this, basically if he couldn't have it then nobody would, the ship was sinking, he wasted ibm's time and efforts, no deal, so he at the last minute worked out deal with his friend ellison for sun, can you believe no due diligence, nothing... it was like worked out in under 48 hours. nuts, the sad thing is that a lot of people are going to lose out, sure they make it look like a better deal, all charade, oracle will eventually be carving it up, gutting it. oracle is not a hardware company, but the destruction of sun did not start today, it started a long time ago, when i worked there a decade ago it was rotten, the executives were like out to lunch bailing out with the $$$ from the internet bubble and not investing it. they really hurt their ability to bring quality products to market, god they made their money from going after microsoft and settling with them, not from their product sales and a long string of half hearted efforts with engineers working very hard and have to do with what was left, real lack of leadership.

 

[rdawise]

[citation][nom]p05esto[/nom]JAVA and MySQL will be going bye-bye, that's my prediction. I like .NET?SQL much more anyhow, JAVA is ridiculously hard to learn in comparrision.[/citation]

I highly doubt JAVA is going bye by because, if I'm not mistaken, some of Oracles products were built off java technology. If anything Java should get a boost from the acquistion. MySQL on other hand could nbe on the chopping block. MySQL is open source (free) so there isn't much money to be had in this. I could see Oracle keeping a MySQL as a low end, low demand database option.

 

[jsloan]

[citation][nom]rdawise[/nom]I highly doubt JAVA is going bye by because, if I'm not mistaken, some of Oracles products were built off java technology. If anything Java should get a boost from the acquistion. MySQL on other hand could nbe on the chopping block. MySQL is open source (free) so there isn't much money to be had in this. I could see Oracle keeping a MySQL as a low end, low demand database option.[/citation]

oracle already has low end verions of it's database.

java is used by oracle in it's developer tools and database servers. for example server side procedures written in java

microsoft jas same using .net

i still think ibm would have been better

 

[eddieroolz]

[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]Oracle is a software developer primarily providing corporate level software. They're a bit like foxconn - if you're just a consumer, you won't know them.[/citation]

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

 

[duzcizgi]

[citation][nom]jsloan[/nom]oracle already has low end verions of it's database. java is used by oracle in it's developer tools and database servers. for example server side procedures written in javamicrosoft jas same using .neti still think ibm would have been better[/citation]

The scope of MySql & low end Oracle RDBMS are different. Pulling the plug from MySql wouldn't boost Oracle sales, but simply the community would go for PostgreSQL, which is also opensource and in fact vastly superior to MySQL *and* vastly superior to Oracle entry level RDBMS offerings too!

But this acquisition might change the Java landscape significantly, having some of main competitors of Oracle have invested substantially to Java. Causing them to get nearer to Microsoft, as MS is pretty more neutral than Oracle is, in terms of dev environments and wants to get .NET in every possible system out there, preferring it to perform better in Windows, of course.

We'll see it soon, what'll come out.