Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 19:00 UTC
With today's surprise announcement that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems, several questions were raised as to some Sun products, including MySQL, Solaris, and OpenOffice.org. Browsing around the net, there are several viewpoints on the future of these Sun products, and the OpenOffice.org team has even issued a statement itself.
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RE[2]: Is it really a surprise?
by tyrione on Tue 21st Apr 2009 01:52
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is it really a surprise?
"I am very surprised" said Steve Ballmer
"According to a source of mine, IBM hadn't given up on purchasing Sun and was blindsided by Oracle's move" said Ina Fried
the answer to your question is yes
(the sun buy signals a big change in oracle's business, going from NOT a vertical all-in-one into a vertical all-in-one. it was always something they could have done, but only internet oracles saw it coming in hindsight)
"I am very surprised" said Steve Ballmer
"According to a source of mine, IBM hadn't given up on purchasing Sun and was blindsided by Oracle's move" said Ina Fried
the answer to your question is yes
(the sun buy signals a big change in oracle's business, going from NOT a vertical all-in-one into a vertical all-in-one. it was always something they could have done, but only internet oracles saw it coming in hindsight)
That's PR for saving face.
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is it really a surprise?
"I am very surprised" said Steve Ballmer
"According to a source of mine, IBM hadn't given up on purchasing Sun and was blindsided by Oracle's move" said Ina Fried
the answer to your question is yes
(the sun buy signals a big change in oracle's business, going from NOT a vertical all-in-one into a vertical all-in-one. it was always something they could have done, but only internet oracles saw it coming in hindsight)