Oracle joins the fight to acquire Sun Microsystems
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In the near past, Sun Microsystems used to be one of the most highly reputed hardware manufacturers of the world. Their cruiser line was the production of high-end servers, with the addition of a strong Unix-based OS: Solaris.
My own experience with Sun boxes has been glorious and I would personally certify that the stability of Sun-based Database and Application Server Systems is still top and way ahead of the competition.
But, due to the high offer of Intel x86 processor-based Servers, provided mainly by HP and IBM, the share of the market for Sun began to reduce substantially and gradually since the wakening of the current millenium. Following a progressive course, the price of Sun Boxes could not reach the needs of the market, always looking for more cost-effective investments in hardware.
As a mid-term result, Sun saw the pronounced decline in the sales peaks and the general feeling of the industry is that Sun is running out of business.
Nonetheless, Sun is still the owner of a couple of pieces of software. Software that is extremely attractive to the naked eye of the potential investors. The first ones, being IBM and HP, who have tried to make a settlement and acquire the giant of Solaris, Java and MySQL.
The third one in dispute became Ellison´s Oracle, whose expansive movements during the last 4 years have amazed the observers and analysts of the industry.
No more than $7.4 billion is the arrangement proposed by Larry Ellison - Oracle’s CEO - to Sun Microsystems. If successful; Java, Solaris, MySQL and Eclipse (among others) will join the team of Oracle 11G RDBMS, Oracle Application Server 11G OAS, Oracle’s Peoplesoft and some other jewels of the software giant.
In fact, being a deal where the production of hardware will be possibly discarded, the acquisition of Java - among all of Sun Microsystem’s software - would put Oracle into a privileged position in the industry. It would help Ellison to fill the gap in the Application Server territory, as now, OAS 11G and a lot of the RDBMS still depends upon Java to run successfully.
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