Comments on: Oracle-Sun acquisition: marriage destined for divorce

By: ddl

ddl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:25:37 +0000

Totally agreed. what a disaster to open-source communities.

By: Charles Ditzel

Charles Ditzel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:36:47 +0000

Unfortunately this looks like a very biased and like a very, very poorly thought out plan. Oracle can certainly gain alot of traction with Sun’s product set.

- NetBeans. Let’s start with NetBeans. Oracle possesses a Swing-based JDeveloper with a small community. Merging JDeveloper technologies as plugins into NetBeans provides them with a much, much larger community that addresses the hottest segments in the web 2.0 industry and the most lucrative aspects of Java, enterprise Java.

- OpenSolaris provides a much more sophisticated product set than Linux. Let’s start with an advanced file system called ZFS that is the envy of Linux developers everywhere. It get’s a lot better than that - OpenSolaris offers four sophisticated virtualization technologies - Solaris Zones (a lightweight virtualization container which is an excellent light-weight container that host Oracle databases), Logical Domains and Xen-based xVM Server (hypervisor-based virtualization) and finally Crossbow a way of virtualizing the network. There a number of other unique technologies that OpenSolaris offers including not the least that it offer superior security over Linux. This is a no-brainer technology for Oracle to take advantage of. Note that Oracle is probably interested in creating business solutions around appliances which OpenSolaris already offers in the “Amber” road products. These solutions offer unprecedented features not found in competing storage products - being able to easily view exactly what is happening on the system (using DTrace - another killer OpenSolaris technology).

- JavaFX. If you were at JavaOne (last week) you would have a remarkably different opinion. The fact that you only can compare JavaFX to Android, Blackberry and Palm highlights that you don’t know what you are even talking about. JavaFX is a multi-screen language that can be used not only cell phones but also on interactive TV applications, desktop applications and rich internet applications. Please understand the technology before you recommend killing it. JavaFX has already spun up a community around it.

- Sun Cloud. Why not EC2 ? Because Sun Cloud is a killer offering. They have a super easy way to *visually* configure cloud computing assets. Also why would Oracle put their offering in another company’s hands ? You have to think in terms of long-term strategy instead of expedient, short-sighted behavior.

By: JamesD

JamesD — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:54:49 +0000

Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

By: Venky Chinnathambi

Venky Chinnathambi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:49:45 +0000

Prem-
My whole point is that there is no synergy between Oracle and Sun for the most part of it. So, I haven’t given much thoughts to the possibility of Oracle successfully digesting Sun!! Oracle has to shed most of Sun as soon as possible.

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By: prem

prem — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:24:18 +0000

Have you given any though to.. what if Oracle successfully manages/integrates this buyout? Oracle seem to have a good track record of integrating purchased entities.