Since Oracle entered into a definitive agreement under which
Oracle acquired Sun common stock, The acquisition of Sun transformed the IT
industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical
computing systems. Oracle up to time has been the only company that can
engineer an integrated system – applications to disk where all the pieces fit
and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves.
We as customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up. These is evident from the Java and Solaris.
We as customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up. These is evident from the Java and Solaris.
Java is one of the computer industry’s best-known brands and
most widely deployed technologies, and it is the most important software Oracle
has ever acquired. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business,
is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software.
Oracle writes its Fusion apps in Java. Owning Sun kept Java
out of the hands of a competitor (e.g. IBM who was also interested in buying
Sun) and, along with its database community, further increased Oracle’s
influence over developers.
The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for
the Oracle database, Oracle’s largest business, and has been for a long time.
With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some
of the unique, high-end features of Solaris.
But here comes the disclaimer: is MYSQL competing with
oracle? Yes, it seems that way. I think that if Oracle gains ownership of
MySQL, that might be bad for competition in the database market. But does MySQL
even serve the same market as Oracle? Are the two really competing against each
other? But there is an internal effort to assist Sun / MySQL customers in
migrating from Oracle to MySQL by offering them a comprehensive solution that
consists of Professional Services, Best Practices, and a set of approved third
party migration tools and utilities that will enable them to move to MySQL in a
way that is as easy as possible.
Sometimes it gets tiresome when people take shots at Oracle,
MySQL, SQL Server 2008, or PostgreSQL. When I went to the MySQL for Database
Administrators, the instructor mentioned a number of times how many Oracle
people he’d get in his class. It was said almost as if all the Oracle customers
were migrating to MySQL, which I don’t think is the case. If I’m wrong just
post a comment.
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