Oh ... What a news. IBM's loss has been Oracle's gain. Oracle in one sweet move has bought one of the most valued and respected silicon value companies. A company with a very large IP and research base.
Java gets the best part in this deal. With Oracle looking increasing towards Java for enterprise solutions this makes the acquisition great, and the future for Java looks rosier then ever before.
What about other open source products of Sun. Mainly the open source community has to worry about MYSQL and Open Office. What happens to these two? In one shot Oracle has defeated one its major threats in MYSQL and has entered in competition with Microsoft in its flagship office business. Then what happens to the Sun Solaris servers? Lots of questions to be answered yet.
With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is much better placed to provide enterprise solutions. With an entire range of software and hardware at its disposal, from programming language to OS to DB to Servers, Oracle has given a clear indication of where it wants to grow.
Lets just hope that Oracle continues support for the Open Source community and products the way Sun did.
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