Chuan Oracle will purchase multiple open-source companies with a total investment of USD 0.6 billion _ MySQL

Sina Technology News Beijing time on February 11 News, according to foreign media reports, sources revealed that Oracle plans to acquire some well-known open source code companies, to make full use of the software industry open source trends. Oracle is currently negotiating with these companies. Oracle has previously invested heavily in Siebel and Renke, and is currently completing business integration. However, Oracle

Sina Technology News Beijing time on February 11 News, according to foreign media reports, sources revealed that Oracle plans to acquire some well-known open source code companies, to make full use of the software industry open source trends. Oracle is currently negotiating with these companies.

Oracle has previously invested heavily in Siebel and Renke, and is currently completing business integration. However, according to sources, Oracle has negotiated a deal with JBoss, Zend technology, and Sleepycat. The three companies have a total value of about $0.6 billion. However, some people said that the prospect of Oracle's acquisition of Zend is unclear. So far, Oracle, JBoss, Zend, and Sleepycat have not commented on this.

The above transaction reflects the adjustment of Oracle's development strategy from one aspect, and the company has decided to change open source code technology from threat to opportunity. Open-source products are generally free of charge, or related software vendors only charge users for technical support. With this advantage, open-source products bring great pressure to enterprise software. The enterprise software market has become one of Oracle's most important markets after the acquisition of Renke for $10.6 billion and Siebel for $5.8 billion. For example, Oracle's flagship database is facing strong challenges from Ingres and MySQL database products. of course, IBM and Microsoft are also facing the same threat.

According to sources, Oracle management believes that open source products can help enhance the position of strategic Oracle suppliers, especially the company is currently facing a transformation from traditional commercial software to new Web services. After Oracle acquired Innobase, a Finnish open source code company, in last October, the above concepts were supported by the company. Through the "hot swapping" architecture, Oracle plans to provide users with a set of Web service development software that can be based on multiple other programs, while open source products help to expand this software.

"We don't fight against the open source trends in the software industry, but we want to make full use of this trend," said Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, at a meeting organized by Credit Suisse's First Boston organization, make it in our interests." Byron Sebastian, founder of the open-source company SourceLabs, said many large companies want to combine their patented software with open-source products. SourceLabs established a partnership with Oracle this week, saying the move shows that Oracle has fully recognized the open source trend in the software industry, but said he does not understand Oracle's acquisition plan.

Sources said the acquisition of open source code companies helped Oracle increase revenue. For example, some small and medium-sized enterprises are currently using JBoss products. as the enterprise grows, they may turn to Oracle products. James didn't mention Oracle's plan to buy open source code companies at the conference, but he made it clear that Oracle wants to become the leader in any competitive market. There is no doubt that the acquisition will help Oracle achieve this goal. (Moore)