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...Japanese-style mansion, is one of the richest men in the world and another of the great, big personalities of Silicon Valley. Just like his old buddy, Steven P. Jobs. So it was at once surprising - and not - when the news broke this morning that Oracle intends to purchase Sun Microsystems, for around $7.4 billion...
...first glance, the deal makes a lot of sense on the software side alone. Oracle scoops up a competitor MySQL, which is owned and run by a Sun subsidiary. It gets ownership of the Java platform, the write-once, run-anywhere programming language that Sun has increasingly made available as free, open-source software. Java, it turns out, is the platform that supports a suite of Oracle products, so being able to "own" it and direct its evolution gives the database company a critical advantage. Throw in Sun's Solaris Operating system, which powers millions of servers and workstations around...
...Sun is also a hardware company; its workstations were the building blocks of the Internet during the Gold Rush days and its machines still dominate the high-end server business...
...disagree with the observation of some analysts that this deal makes Oracle more IBM than Apple. (Just two weeks ago, IBM had made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Sun, meeting vociferous opposition from Sun's board, particularly from its chairman, the company's legendary founder Scott McNealy.) With the Sun acquisition, Ellison gets a soup-to-nuts business and the ability to integrate everything from chips to boxes to software. But better than serving the fickle consumer market, as Apple does, he gets to slice off the top of the far more lucrative business market. That allows him to protect...
Asked about the quality of the show, Stroud replied, “Once the sun went down, it got better...