Oracle is a bigger competitor for IBM, has a more aggressive strategy and much less committed to open source,for example they have promised to open source Oracle ADF RC for nearly two years, (Apache RCF) but you can't see any progress. now Oracle will have the most complete software stack even more complete than Microsoft! although MySQL was very popular but it was not a direct competitor of DB2 (But Oracle is) and Solaris and AIX had their own customers, Sparc and Power platform had their own market share two, but now with popularity of Oracle DB, Oracle can boost Sparc and Solaris sale, and get more market share from IBM. in software market because of Strong position of Oracle, they may need less commitment to open source and open standards. cheers Arash
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Alan Hancock <suddenrush9...@gmail.com>wrote: > What would IBM move to? Why would Java be any different with Oracle from > IBM's perspective? > > > -Alan via iPhone > > On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Arash Rajaeeyan <arash.rajaee...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I may be a little bad for some sun products, but in whole it would be great > for java vs .net platformOracle is second largest software vendor. > I am afraid this may cause other companies like IBM to move away from Java > platform > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Werner Punz < <werner.p...@gmail.com> > werner.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone I just read at the german Heise site that Oracle has bought >> Sun for 7.4 billion dollars. >> >> I wonder what the implications in the long run will be. >> >> My personal thought is that it might finally become possible that the RI >> and MyFaces can merge... >> >> Java: Probably business as usual but maybe it will become more open! >> >> OpenOffice will probably be maintained with the business as usual. >> >> Same goes for OpenSolaris/Solaris >> >> But I see a rather black future for Netbeans and MySQL... >> (I would be sad if Netbeans would go away the IDE is simply excellent) >> >> Also the proposed IceFaces merger as base for a future JSF-Sun component >> set might be now dead in the light of Oracle having already something in >> their portfolio! >> >> As for the Sun hardware division that is a big question, but I personally >> guess Oracle will try to keep it alive and make it a cash cow again! >> >> > > > -- > Arash Rajaeeyan > > -- Arash Rajaeeyan
