Oracle buys Sun for $7.4B! - GoFuckYourself.com

StuartD · 04-20-2009, 07:51 AM

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598&tag=nl.e589

Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition of Java ?is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired.?

With the move- valued at $7.4 billion including Sun?s debt - Oracle also becomes a full-fledged hardware player.

Manowar · 04-20-2009, 07:55 AM

got damn, the rumours were that IBM was the only one interested

Porn Producer · 04-20-2009, 07:57 AM

Oracle announces MySQL will now be $50,000 per processor for web-exposed servers.

That seems fair.

WiredGuy · 04-20-2009, 08:04 AM

Oracle buying into the Java platform? I'm curious what Larry's thinking with that.
WG

Brad Mitchell · 04-20-2009, 08:47 AM

Definitely something to watch as it unfolds. It would be nice to see a Oracle take a more aggressive approach on hardware pricing versus the old Sun but I can't imagine that happening as mainstream pricing and markets aren't Oracle's current focus.

Brad

Bjorn Andersen · 04-21-2009, 01:01 AM

ouch.....

nation-x · 04-21-2009, 05:29 AM

that sux really

Ace_luffy · 04-21-2009, 05:34 AM

that's really a big news on BBC

i wonder what's plans of oracle why buying " JAVA " creators....

big " ? "

Klen · 04-21-2009, 05:58 AM

Interesting article here:
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/...sun-mysql.html

XR2 · 04-21-2009, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

Definitely something to watch as it unfolds. It would be nice to see a Oracle take a more aggressive approach on hardware pricing versus the old Sun but I can't imagine that happening as mainstream pricing and markets aren't Oracle's current focus.

Brad

Blimey, I know sun was/is expensive remember spending around $2.5M on a E15K woof! a few years back , but oracle pricing is legendary with hideously complex and very expensive licensing models, although I've got to admit, I do love Oracle as an RDBMS...

L0stMind · 04-21-2009, 08:33 AM

There is no way Oracle buying Sun will result in lower cost hardware. Have you ever tried to purchase anything from Oracle? hehehe.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they spin off or drop the hardware division entirely as it's not in Oracle's favour. And who runs Oracle on Solaris??

Too bad, I really like Sun hardware.

Brad Mitchell · 04-21-2009, 08:53 PM

Who knows, perhaps they'll merge with Apple and conquer the universe. LOL

Brad

GAMEFINEST · 04-21-2009, 09:10 PM

layoffs ..

kmanrox · 04-21-2009, 11:38 PM

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