Sign up for a new account or log in here:
Home › News › Industry News
Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion
It also thrusts Oracle into the hardware business. Sun's directors have unanimously approved the takeover, which should close in the summer, and is unlikely to encounter the kind of anti-trust scrutiny a deal with IBM would surely have met due to their overlapping server businesses – the two combined would have controlled 65 percent of the high-end Unix server market.
The move also gives Oracle control of MySQL, which Sun acquired last year for $1 billion and promised to keep completely open. It remains to be seen what Oracle has in store for the popular open source database, though one would think that improving a product that could compete with its flagship is not their top priority right now.
User Comments: 4
Got something to say? Post a comment-
Well, its better than IBM.I'll say that much.
-
Bye bye MySQL, been nice knowing you... From a business standpoint there is no way that Oracle is going to keep MySQL as a product line since it's a direct competitor to it's bread and butter database...
-
[b]Originally posted by inventix1136:[/b][quote]Bye bye MySQL, been nice knowing you... From a business standpoint there is no way that Oracle is going to keep MySQL as a product line since it's a direct competitor to it's bread and butter database...[/quote]Hmm... Maybe. Or maybe not.Analysts: Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership[url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do
command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131848[/url]One year after spending $1 billion to purchase MySQL, the open-source database software company, Sun Microsystems is now being swallowed up by Oracle.Oracle's Database 11g will remain the company's flagship product, but that doesn't mean MySQL and its users will suffer under the hand of CEO Larry Ellison. In fact, MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership, analysts say."MySQL is not going away," says Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus. "That's one of the key assets Oracle is buying here, and they know it." -
[url]http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/20/mysql-marten-mickos-tec
nology-enterprise-tech-mysql.html[/url]
Most Popular
| Trending | Featured |
Featured on Routers
Latest Discussion
Subscribe to TechSpot
Get free exclusive content, learn about new features and breaking tech news.