Oracle Buys Sun 906
bruunb writes "Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. 'We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle's non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,' said Oracle President Safra Catz."
New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms (Score:5, Funny)
1s - free
0s - $10 per 0, minimum 100,000 0s
Site already slashdotted ... (Score:3, Funny)
Seems oracle.com is down :(
Somehow i did hoped IBM would go and buy SUN, if this is really definitive .. how do IBM and Oracle play together ?
Re:Arse. (Score:2, Funny)
more likely: will fork furiously and retain aggregate popularity while neither being quite compatible nor actually, ah, storing data reliably.
So, business as usual, then?
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Is 8am too early to start drinking?
No.
Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Jesus, the Linux weenies are out in force today!
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
What the fuck is "netbeans"? Who uses this java nonsense anyway?
Java 8 Preview (Score:5, Funny)
Java 8 will replace String with String2, which will treat empty string and null the same.
Re:Well, crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Is 8am too early to start drinking?
That really depends upon your timezone and whether or not you've been to bed yet.
Re:Wow. Just Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
I think Oracle on AIX is pretty powerful, and popular.
Re:Well, crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed, because it's 5pm somewhere.
Re:Site already slashdotted ... (Score:5, Funny)
They've switch to Solaris already???
(ducks and runs for cover :)
Re:The internal announcement (Score:2, Funny)
You might be able to haggle on the hashes. (Score:2, Funny)
Per-bit, with the 1's stored being stored free, and the 0's being stored at $10.00 each, payable in bunches of 100,000.
You're playing an incomplete game! (Score:5, Funny)
On paper, Rock
Why won't anyone play with scissors? :(
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I just hope... (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! Did that guy just use "synergies" in a non-ironic fashion? Get him!
Re:Site already slashdotted ... (Score:1, Funny)
Seems oracle.com is down :(
... and seems to be running behind the F5 BigIP load balancers that featured on /. recently [slashdot.org] - see netcraft [netcraft.com].
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
They are the seeds of the internet. You plant some and sprinkle them with bits. Eventually they grow into a huge series of tubes. How do you think the internet was created? With lots and lots of netbeans.
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms (Score:5, Funny)
per processor core, multiplied by the number of megabytes of RAM installed in your system.
Oh, pardon me, this isn't a production system, but is a development workstation? Allow me to refer you to the above licensing fee schedule. Thank you for choosing Oracle!
catz (Score:4, Funny)
Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark...
"all your database are belong to us"
Re:Java 8 Preview (Score:3, Funny)
sounds like PHP
Re:You're playing an incomplete game! (Score:3, Funny)
Unbreakable (Score:4, Funny)
Oracle already has Linux (a re-branded RHEL) for it's *NIX platform.
But perhaps they'd prefer something unbreakable. Like Solaris.
Re:The internal announcement (Score:4, Funny)
From: Jonathan I. Schwartz
To: allsun@sun.com
Subject: Today's Sun/Oracle Announcement
So I can spam sun now?
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
I have many co-workers that use Eclipse everyday, but that never got hold of point of the joke in the name.
The name isn't the only joke about Eclipse.
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures. Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. Try to compete with Apache. Try to build a new OpenOffice ...
So ... does that mean emacs or vi[m] won?
Re:Postgres is looking better than ever (Score:5, Funny)
On the other hand, it makes selling tickets to the event easier.
Re:New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms (Score:5, Funny)
Just give me the 1s, and tell me where they go. I'll fill in the 0s myself. :-)
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it foretells the coming of the one true operating system / text editor:
VIMACS!
All hail!
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:1, Funny)
You're playing a dangerous game! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Unbreakable (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted
I think you mean occluded [thefreedictionary.com]. "occulted" is when you wave a dead chicken at it at midnight.
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
actually thats how you get the perl support working
Re:Wow. Just Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
It's IBM without... you know... the "IBM."
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:4, Funny)
I think this is how most people predict or evaluate Oracle's actions: "How would this f--- Bill Gates?"
"Um, Mr. Ellison? Bill Gates isn't running Microsoft anymore--"
"SHUT UP! I know he's still out there..." (stares out his window menacingly towards Redmond)
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
Nah. PostgreSQL has won. We just haven't managed to persuade the MySQL users that they've lost yet. ;)
Re:You're playing an incomplete game! (Score:3, Funny)
Because the scissors were confiscated by airport security.
But little did they know the paper had edges as sharp as a razor blade...
Re:This year is just beggining... (Score:3, Funny)
You mean, the Microsoft Linux jokes weren't jokes?..
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it foretells the coming of the one true operating system / text editor:
VIMACS!
All hail!
You mean emacs will finally get a usable text editor?
Re:What about MySQL? (Score:3, Funny)
But, but he made the Scorpion King in the 2000s...?