20th April 2009, Oracle looks poised to acquire Sun Microsystems, pending Sun stockholder and other regulatory approvals, see Sun release here.
Wow pass me another company, burp ! The initial thoughts are that both companies will operate independently, yeah right !
Over time we will see the parent push culture and direction into the Sun camp. How will this all play out?
The acquisition gives Oracle a commanding position to battle up against the likes of IBM from the app to the bare metal, in theory a nice end to end story.
Acquiring the JAVA rights is a key software positioning that should not be underestimated as Oracle will strengthen its middleware play in in the marketplace. It also gives a strong Microsoft compete story in the application development space and office applications. But the question is how well the acquisition and the integration goes. Will the burp be passing gas or will a deeper organisational indigestion set in. I have not crystal ball, so let’s see how this pans out.
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