An open source database for $1bn sounds a bit expensive. I'm still surprised that SAP didn't make an approach for BEA as Netweaver isn't as strong a middleware solution as the BEA suite whereas Oracle does stand on its own better.
In terms of SOA it means (apologies to smaller vendors) that there are only four big games in town Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft. Three of these have near identical strategies in terms of platforms and standards which is great news in turns of interop and skills industrialisation. It does however reduce the innovation pool. Maybe the question is what company has a set of applications based around the Java & J2EE standards that offer clear differentiation and leadership in the Web 2.0 market.... http://finance.google.com/finance?q=Adobe anyone? Steve On 16/01/2008, Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To quote Miko's recent Status Update on Facebook: "Miko Matsumura is > amazed by sun buying mysql and yawning at oracle buying bea." > > What implications do you think this has for SOA and the availability of > SOA-orientated (SOAOS??) solutions? > > Gervas > > >
