Oracle aquiring Sun

[Trooper110]

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/p...eharligekbtSun...

[Savage_Hobo]

I can't get into your link.... Looks like you must have been logged in when you got the address.

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

Here is the info from Sun.

[Trooper110]

Hrmmm, I can't get to it at all anymore. Dunno wth Oracle is doing. Thanks for the new link SH.

[Hammy]

Oracle to Buy Sun for $7.4 Billion After IBM Withdraws Bid - Bloomberg.com

I worked at Siebel Systems until they were acquired by the Death Star (Oracle). For those of you who have never been out here, they have a series of builds that are shaped like the original Servers they used to make-- and they are all black. Anyways, I left immediately because of their churn and burn environment. You are one part lucky, one part skill, and one part political in their business environment as an employee of Oracle.

Anyways, Sun was Google 15yrs ago. They had a skunkworks, etc. They always had a new something that hit the market, but never really churned a product, and they lived a long life on license revenue from just two areas of business.

Google today follows the same issues and problems and in 15 years Google should be as brittle as Sun was today when Oracle completed the acquisition process with a joint announcement.

I can still remember as a kid the day they started building their first building there. Now its a behomoth of a company.

[mapes]

I wonder if the Sun Storage division is included..

[BigTwinky]

Oh snap, I thought Oracle bought the actual sun. Now that would be interesting.

[mapes]

Oh snap, I thought Oracle bought the actual sun. Now that would be interesting.

I thought you could get on of those on Amazon

[Trooper110]

I thought you could get on of those on Amazon

An oracle or a sun?

[Hammy]

Those Sun Server Licenses are going UP UP UP !!!!!

Goodbye happy world!

Hello multi-cpu ugly license.