Why Oracle wants to buy Sun (explanation)

    The saga that Sun Microsystems will sooner or later be bought by an equally well-known and major player in the IT business seems to be approaching its logical finale. Last Monday, Oracle announced it would buy Sun’s business for $ 5.6 billion (or $ 9 and a half per share). The rationale for this is that Oracle wants to acquire JAVA, calling it "is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired." A note has already appeared in TechRepublic that Oracle wants to become a kind of Adobe Apple, but not for end-users, but for corporate users . It means that when buying JAVA, Oracle finally fulfills Charles Phillips' dream that the company will be able to offer its customers everything from software to hardware.

    The TechRepublic writer provides reasonably clear evidence of Oracle’s benefit from Sun. Personally, I liked the idea that both sides would benefit from this - the merger is called "natural evolution", which is already unanimously approved by the Sun Board of Shareholders. Completion of the transaction is expected by the end of summer.

    PS: yes, probably, they will really give Sun (exactly so, since for Oracle - and this is emphasized in the above note - these are "mere pennies") in "good hands." True, you will need to forget about MySQL forever - Oracle’s Elisson is not comfortable supporting an open source-competitive solution.

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