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Oracle buys Sun - and Java

Larry Dignan: With the move, valued at $7.4 billion including Sun's debt, Oracle becomes a full-fledged hardware player. And by the way, the company also acquired Java - "the most important software Oracle has ever acquired."

No less than 14 ZDNet bloggers and others chipped in with their take on one of the most interesting mergers in tech history. While they don't always agree, we have all sides covered.

  • Sun-Oracle FAQ: Did IBM make a huge mistake?

    The deal gives Oracle control over the Unix-based Solaris operating system and Java programming language. A silicon.com panel of experts predict how this will affect the tech industry.

  • Are any open source projects too big to lose

    Dana Blankenhorn: The pending purchase of Sun by Oracle will leave the proprietary database king in clear charge of open source’s crown jewels: Java, Openoffice.org, and mySQL.

  • Linux leader: Oracle-Sun good news for Linux

    Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin says business-software leader Oracle is strategically aligned with Linux, as well as a Linux distributor and a major user of the open-source operating system.

  • Sun CEO's full e-mail to staff; 'not the end of the road'

    Andrew Nusca: Not a day too late after the Oracle-Sun deal was announced, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s chief executive, wrote employees a reassuring internal email.

  • Will Oracle-Sun deal close?

    Dana Blankenhorn: While some analysts are already imagining big Sun job cuts or poring over its real estate, a few are asking the obvious follow-up. Will this deal go through?

  • He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

    Jason Perlow: It was a giant constrictor snake that was going to squeeze anyone who participated in Sun’s ecosystem — and in particular, anyone who lived within the sphere of influence of Java, OpenOffice, MySQL, Solaris, and anything else of Sun’s that was Open Source.

  • Oracle acquisition of Sun makes perfect sense

    Dana Gardner: This new compact, if it succeeds, will bring as good an end to an independent Sun as the pioneering (yet long flagging) IT vendor could have hoped for at this sorry stage in its history.

  • Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe

    Dennis Howlett: Putting on my curmudgeon’s curmudgeon hat I can’t help but think this is a dark day for the enterprise computing business.

  • Is Oracle serious about hardware?

    Larry Dignan: Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems brings a sizeable hardware business to Larry Ellison’s gang. The larger question is how serious is Oracle about Sun’s hardware?

  • Oracle press release speaks truth

    Dana Blankenhorn: My problem with this comes down to one word. Fork. In open source, if you don’t like something, you fork it. You create your own version. You get together with friends and go for it.

  • Shuttleworth: Oracle now largest open source player

    Paula Rooney: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux doesn’t seem too worried that the proprietary software company will kill Sun’s open source Java, OpenSolaris and MySQL jewels, in spite of Oracle’s hold on the database market.

  • What does Oracle mean for Sun's open source efforts?

    Joe Brockmeier: So much for a big blue Sun. Does this mean that Oracle will become "the biggest contributor to open source," or a gaping hole in the FOSS ecosystem?

  • Covetus the Sun installed base

    James Staten: Expect Oracle to shop some of Sun's hardware units tout suite. Dell and HP are likely to bid for these businesses and do a strategic alignment on product collaboration like HP’s last year on the Oracle Data Warehouse.

  • IBM surprised, Ballmer speechless

    Reporters caught up with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Moscow - but apparently Ballmer, who is rarely at a loss for words, didn't exactly have a sound byte at the ready.

  • Sun sells soul for 10 cents more

    Ed Burnette: Speculation has it that IBM balked at the millions of dollars of acquisition payouts to top Sun executives such as CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Chairman Scott McNealy. It looks like Oracle didn’t. It’s as simple as that.

  • Oracle: A complete industry in a box

    Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The merger of Oracle, with its wide range of database and enterprise software, with Sun, with its Solaris operating system, Java programming language for Web applications and high-performance hardware, would make it possible tightly integrate everything a corporate customer might want

  • Oracle to buy Sun - view from the virtual world

    Dan Kusnetzky: If the merger goes through, it will certainly change the dynamics of the market for servers, operating systems, development tools, database management systems, applications and, of course, virtualization technology. Let’s take a dark view of the possibilities.

  • The Oracle-buys-Sun thing - 'Snorkel' - what's the deal with that?

    Joe McKendrick: There’s been a firehose of commentary to be found about today’s announcement that Oracle intends to buy Sun, so I will point to some insightful remarks from fellow analysts and commentators.

  • Oracle acquiring Sun - good deal

    Paul Murphy: Sounds like a good thing to me - no immediate conflicts, lots of possible synergies.

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