Thoughts On Oracle and Sun Deal
Sun and Oracle announced today a definitive agreement for Oracle to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. An agreement that will make of Oracle the first competitor to IBM by having Sun technologies in hardware, Java, Operation system (Solaris), Open Office and even the most popular open source database for the web MySQL !
"The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. "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."
The deal could have very positive effect on Oracle business as mentioned Oracle CEO, especially by providing full solution from hardware, operation system, Java, in addition to Oracle business and database solutions. But until the deal close and real result of this acquisition become visible, things might gets worse before it gets better.
MySQL is a successful database and there is no need to be worried from the open source community, Oracle won't turn off a successful product just to keep their own, but the question is : Could oracle database take any benefits from MySQL success ? It's really difficult to see how a company will carry two similar products, not just similar, but they are competitors !
Another open source part of the deal have not been mentioned anywhere, which is Open Office, the most robust open source office suite for Linux, Windows, Solaris, and more... Oracle focused on two main products from Sun which are the Operating system and hardware. Java even not mentioned is in the core of the deal, almost everywhere, and also we will see in the next month a serious competition between Java IBM and Java Oracle.
Then what's going to happen to this world after this ?
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