What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? 237
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister believes Oracle is next in line to make a play for Sun now that IBM has withdrawn its offer. Dismissing server market arguments in favor of Cisco or Dell as suitors, McAllister suggests that MySQL, ZFS, DTrace, and Java make Sun an even better asset to Oracle than to IBM. MySQL as a complement to Oracle's existing database business would make sense, given Oracle's 2005 purchase of Innobase, and with 'the long history of Oracle databases on Solaris servers, it might actually see owning Solaris as an asset,' McAllister writes. But the 'crown jewel' of the deal would be Java. 'It's almost impossible to overestimate the importance of Java to Oracle. Java has become the backbone of Oracle's middleware strategy,' McAllister contends."
Yahoo! + Sun (Score:5, Funny)
Everytime I see this phrase... (Score:5, Funny)
It's almost impossible to overestimate the importance of Java to Oracle
Java will help Oracle colonize the entire solar system.
Re:Everytime I see this phrase... (Score:4, Funny)
Picture of spaceship crater, with caption: FAIL
Re:Strange Database Merge... (Score:5, Funny)
So, what's next on your fight card? Space Marines vs. Pee-Wee Herman? Guillermo Jones vs. 6-year-old Timmy from down the block?
Re:My Thoughts (Score:3, Funny)
* Warning: Corporate buzzword!
GAAH!! Put the warning (or at least the asterisk) before the word! It's well documented that overexposure to corporate buzzwords causes headaches, confusion, and eventually IQ loss.
Re:Am I the only one? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Makes sense (Score:2, Funny)
Are you a fish?
Are you a gay fish?
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