Merger of Oracle and Sun, prospects

I have been working with Oracle technologies for more than 5 years. But I have no direct relation to this corporation, and everything written here is my personal opinion.
I want to share my vision of what will happen if Oracle buys Sun.
Why do I want to devote a whole topic to this? Are there enough conversations in the comments?
No, I believe that the fate of this transaction will greatly change IT, in the near future.
Judge for yourself in connection with the latest acquisitions, the “red giant” can offer a full range of applications necessary for successful business: these are document management systems, mail; ERP, BI analytics and even a billing system.
They have without a doubt a powerful DB, with the largest list of options, including full-fledged OLAP, in 11g.
Plus they release their own framework for developing Oracle ADF .
And now they’re also getting almost a monopoly on Java technology, plus Sun’s hardware business.
But I digress, back to the topic topic


First about the technologies that Oracle will be happy.
Firstly - Oracle will be happy Java - in fact, Oracle has become a monopolist, I do not know how the US Antimonopoly Committee will react to this. In general, on the approach of J3EE and in theory it should have been released by Oracle and Sun, but now only Oracle? or will another major consumer of technology connect to the process - SAP ?? It is not clear yet, but it does not matter.
Second, Oracle will be delighted with Sun's development of File Systems. Luster and ZFS will definitely find their place in Oracle technologies: OCFS, OCFS2, ASM. I believe Luster should breathe new life into the not-so-successful in the first version of OCFS.
Thirdly, of course, Solaris, as you know, at the moment Oracle is actively promoting its Oracle Unbreakable Linux. It is not clear whether Oracle will promote two operating systems? On the one hand, it is quite resource-intensive, on the other hand, Oracle will have 30,000 employees, Sun's staff, and they need to be occupied with something.
But there are also technologies that Oracle are a little foreign. First of all, it's StarOffice. Why is it Oracle? Initially, you should recall the words of the president of Oracle: "We do not do what we cannot be the first in." Here, Oracle Corporation does not shine because in office suites - M $ they rule and it will be difficult to move them. The only way to rewrite this office suite for the web. In this case, oracle will be able to use powerful word processors in products such as Collaboration Suite. It is also possible to integrate into their Document database (something like a centralized file storage) - they will get an analogue of Google Docs. This is all provided that they translate the project on the web. But I think a more real full transfer of rights to this product in favor of OpenOffice.net.
For GlassFish, MySQL, I would not worry, Oracle has more than one base; there are free Berkeley DB, XML DB; there will also be muscle, plus GlassFish as a free analogue of WebLogic / ApplicationServer. They will lay out support, but their development will not become a priority for a number of reasons.
But NetBeans is likely to enrich the functionality of JDeveloper, I very much doubt that Oracle will abandon it. This IDE has been tuned into the database for too long, there have been many not-so-successful releases, before 10s and 11s, oh I do not believe that Oracle will simply switch to NetBeans.
And finally, an open question: what will be in the Sun server business, as well as its Storage solutions. In general, current trends speak in favor of the fact that Oracle will offer customers a full range of software and hardware for deploying any application. ExaData, a joint project of Oracle and HP, hardware solutions HP + Oracle Linux + any turnkey DB speaks in favor of this. After the takeover of Sun, Oracle will have all the necessary resources for the independent release of such solutions. They will be required to do this, there is only one thing but. Failure of SPARC processors. Here, as a specialist in Databases, it’s hard for me to predict anything, I hope that the Habra people will have their own comments on this.
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And most importantly, I forgot.
And most importantly, it's virtualization technology. Oracle recently began to dig in this direction. Their Oracle VM was developed, who came across a very poor product in terms of what is an analogue of IBM AIX. The virtual machine itself is essentially RedHat, only the same RedHats can virtualize. However, it has a very convenient web interface: Oracle VM manager, for managing a fleet of virtual machines.
However, the acquisition of a virtual box will compete with IBM and Dell (which owns EMC, which owns VMWare).
Without virtualization, it is difficult to conduct development on this basis. In general, Oracle has a strict three-tier ideology of software development.
A productive server - a server that is untouchable, cannot be developed on it, for well-known reasons - before the 11th version, the database had problems that when making a change to the application source code, there was a high probability of invalidating most of the application.
In this regard, it is necessary to keep two servers: Test and Dev.
Dev - for conducting development, usually lags behind the productive system for many months.
Test - for testing new developments, it is usually an exact copy of a productive server, obtained by cloning, most often once a month, sometimes even when tests are covered by a productive server every night.
Agree pretty bloated architecture. And without virtualization, it’s difficult to maintain such a technology park.