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Final Thoughts About The Oracle/Sun Merger
I must say that I’m a bit surprised by the overall response to the idea of the merger. The response has been all over the board, from wishing it went a different way to not understanding "why" to worry about the future of the key open source products. The response has not been by any means uniform or even vaguely consistent. It hasn’t been "religious" – just really mixed. The net-net is that we will have to wait and see and, if you’re involved with these open source products, stay involved and make sure you work with the community to continue development and support.
From Anonymous: "The big Oracle database applications I’ve worked on ran on Suns- large machines with lots of processors.
In my experience, these were much more reliable machines than Windows/Vista machines, plus easier to troubleshoot. I’ve worked on HP machines, but they were harder to work on.
I don’t know if there are "big linux" machines to compete with Suns, but perhaps Oracle wants to keep these machines available. Meanwhile, people I know in Sun R&D are keeping their fingers crossed about their projects."
And Juan wrote in as well – "I really was considering IBM deal something weird. Since IBM in some past trades has acted as inverse of the Midas’ Touch. On the other side, what would happened to NetBeans and Oracle Developer suite..Maybe be sent to oblivion. The monopoly should be clear. And also we are talking about other products like Websphere and Glassfish.
Personaly I do not trust IBM enough to see a future for SUN products. Java in IBM hands, help!
Oracle on the other hand, does not have hardware experience, MySQL and Postgress are clear competitors of remarkable Oracle DB. What then? What is doing Oracle with other acquisitions?
I’d rather like to see something like, let’s say NCR buying SUN. Concentrating such power in Oracle’s or IBM’s domains leave us with no alternatives but Microsoft."
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