I am still following up the news of the acquisition , and i think there is alot of things going behind the scene, some are promising and some are not , anyway for the promising part we can talk.
Few weeks ago Oracle announced the Exadata2 machine from Oracle & Sun , well , I enjoyed listening to the event .
I have to say it: It is packaging Sun innovations in a very appealing package by a very professional Software company Oracle. This is a good step for you Oracle , I have been telling for many years that the only piece that is missing in oracle is the H/W part , we used to debate with my DBA colleges that some products like ASM is missing the touch of a firmware from a storage specialized companies , a touch of a Volume manager mechanism , and now they got that. Well Done Oracle , now you are in the right track.
The commercial campaign that been launched by Oracle is really promising , if they really mean it , I hope So , But i have to admit confronting IBM that clearly can not be something for just getting attention . anyway lets wait and see.
Few days ago I got this link from Infoworld for the history of Sun , they just named the rise and fall of Sun Microsystems. But is it really fall ! i don't know , well this is the not promising thing that i avoided to talk about.
Anyway i think the report of Bruce Guptill from Saugatuck Technology was one of the few reports that analyzed in-depth all issues related to that Oracle-Sun acquisition , he named it The Impact of Oracle-Sun I think it worth reading it.
I think The MySql open source database within the Oracle-Sun will not be a big issue , they will get it done to finalize the acquisition in a way that will make the EU will agree , the only impact might be the delay that it will cause to finalize the acquisition specially that Ellision announced that it is causing a money lose in that delay in the Ed Zander Interview , he also announced many promising things in that interview , regarding keeping H/W , investing more in Sun ,and also adding some spice when stating clearly that Solaris is a way better than AIX.
The next few weeks - specially after the Oracle Open world will take place- will give us a clue for how things will go on.
To be continued ...
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