Oracle Buys Sun

[Sandman]

really ? how do you work that one out ? Why should sun being owned by oracle make sun's virtualization any more or less of a competitor against vmware, microsoft or citrix.

 

By purchasing Sun, Oracle will pick up a bulging grab bag of properties, from MySQL to xVM products to a strong set of service and support operations. Successfully incorporating them could give Oracle many weapons for use against various rivals, not the least of which are IBM & VMWare

 

Sun has focused heavily on virtualization, offering both the open source xVM Server hypervisor for data centers and the xVM Ops Center to manage virtual and physical infrastructures. It has also joined Microsoft's third-party server virtualization validation program.

 

These technologies give Oracle an entree into the market for virtualizing data centers and managing the virtualized data center.

[Butuz]

Well - Oracle is a darn site better than IBM thats for sure. At least Oracles product portfolio isnt in full competition with Suns!

 

Butuz

[Sandman]

Well - Oracle is a darn site better than IBM thats for sure. At least Oracles product portfolio isnt in full competition with Suns!

 

Butuz

 

Yeah.... IBM are probably a little bit more intimidated by Oracle/Sun now.

[torledo]

Well - Oracle is a darn site better than IBM thats for sure. At least Oracles product portfolio isnt in full competition with Suns!

 

Butuz

 

yes. but oracle are a software company. this would be the first time they've owned a hardware business ?

 

it wouldn't be too hard for oracle to develop their own virtualization platform, xVM is after all based on Xen. What was stopping oracle from developing their own xen based virtualization product. They released their own linux product....sure i take the point about having a full stack from hardware all the way through to applications, but they've already had partnerships with the likes of HP to sell full solutions.

 

I do believe this had the potential to be an interesting acquisition for oracle, but i'm wondering how much it really affects people on here who i'm guessing don't or rarely use oracle products and can and do use mysql, sun hardware, xvm if and when they want to irrespective of what value, if any, oracle can add. I await to see what value Oracle can add for the small business.