[geeks] Tim Oren on Oracle - Sun

[Phil Stracchino]

Brian Dunbar wrote:
> http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/orcl-java-ibm-java.html
> 
> His conclusion is that Sun's server line and Solaris will linger then
> die, Java's future is iffy, mySQL has conflicts with existing Oracle
> products.
> 
> Thoughts?

Well, on the one hand, that sounds like just about everything Sun
produces is set for doom.  On the other hand, it wouldn't be the first
time one company has bought another only to kill off all of its products.

(Few companies do so in ways as headslappy as Red Hat, though.  After
its IPO, flush with imaginary money, Red Hat went on a drunken-sailor
spending spree of buying up companies "to round out its product line",
and in several cases, the first thing it did after acquiring the company
was to kill all the products and projects, and the second thing was to
lay off all the employees.  For at least one of the companies that Red
Hat gobbled up, this happened within about 30 days of the acquisition.
One of the companies it bought up and threw in the shitter in this way
was the company that made CCVS, which was at the time THE ONLY
open-source credit-card verification system on the market.  Way to
"round out" a product line...)


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