Monday, April 20th, 2009

Oracle to Aquire Sun Microsystems

★ Ashlee Vance, reporting for the NYT:

The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion. […]

The deal immediately disrupts the traditional relationships formed between some of the technology industry’s largest players and thrusts Oracle into the hardware business. Oracle, for example, has long-standing partnerships with Sun’s rivals, including Hewlett-Packard and Dell.

Since just about every project I work on uses MySQL in someway, this is slightly disturbing news. Nobody nows exactly what Oracles plans for MySQL are, but I’m hoping that they don’t neglect it in favor of Oracle’s own DB. We can only wait and see.

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One Comment on “Oracle to Aquire Sun Microsystems”

Mar 19, 2010 - 2:00 am

Concrete Beam

Sup

Well, I had doubts but I guess the picture is complete now. Thanks God for your blog and the internet. Best Regards, Raelene Rainbow

Cheers!

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