Oracle Completes Sun Acquisition: Update

Oracle Corporation has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Combination of the local entities worldwide will proceed in accordance with local laws.

Oracle is hosting an all-day live event, which also will be webcast. We will keep you updated on this page.
 

Updates

# Oracle is now a Hardware company:  According to Wall Street Journal, Oracle will expand its business into hardware segment.

# To hire more: To enble the transition from software to hardware, Oracle will hire 2,000 sales and engineering employees. This hiring is much more than the number of employees being fired post acquisition.

# Becomes the biggest tech company of the planet: Oracle is now sitting on the widest range of business technologies.

# Owns two Operating Systems: Oracle now owns two major operating systems: Sun Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux (which is copied from Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

# Owns major Muktware products: Oracle is now the owner of OpenOffice.org, MySQL, GlassFish, Java and much more.

Microsoft vs Oracle war: Microsoft is one of the arch rivals of Oracle. If Oracle wants they can make Microsoft's Office Suite to struggle for survival. Corporates heavily depend on productive suites and Oracle now has OpenOffice.org -- one of the biggest competitors of MS Office. The product is available for free to ordinary/home users, but corporate customers buy OpenOffice with support.

Oracle may use its sales teams to push MS suite out of offices and to install OpenOffice.org. Microsoft has never seen or wresteled with a heavyweight like Oracle. Coming months are going to be interesting for Microsoft.

Oracle says that the combinationof Oracle and Sun transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle's portfolio of database, middleware, and business applications, Oracle plans to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.

Each layer of the stack will be architected to improve performance, leverage innovation and centralize management so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance, reliability and security goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.