oracle to buy sun microsystems

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Today Oracle and sun announced that they will be buying Sun Microsystems. And this is big!

Imagine the biggest non opensource database company not only owning their biggest rival MySQL but also a lot of other key internet technologies such as: java, solaris, netbeans, virtualbox (virtilisation software) , openoffice (A microsoft office “clone”). Not to mention the great technologies SUN has turned out in the last years, amongst them ZFS. (A totally new way of implementing an in theory unlimited journaling filesystem with end to end check summing on all data, and for many considered the best thing since sliced bread.) But also their own CPU architecture the SPARC and will be producing their own hardware to run all this software on.

I still haven’t decided if i should be scared or happy for the effects this will have on a lot of open source software. Interesting times we are living in!

And i’m not the only one thinking that and it is worrying that Oracles website could not cope with the load, but SUN‘s could.

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But sun's did handle the load.

Some quotes from sun:

Press Release Quotes

“The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system applications to disk where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.”

Larry Ellison
CEO
Oracle

“Oracle and Sun have been industry pioneers and close partners for more than 20 years. This combination is a natural evolution of our relationship and will be an industry-defining event.”

Scott McNealy
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of Sun Federal, Inc.
Sun Microsystems

“This is a fantastic day for Sun’s customers, developers and partners across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace. From the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun’s SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we’ll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace.”