Oracle acquired Sun and the IT industry entered the Three Kingdoms Era

A month ago, a debate with friends said that as the Microsoft. NET platform continues to rise, competition with sun will continue to increase. Sun will be acquired or depressed one day .....
I saw this message on the news today, and my mind was shocked! Because the IT industry will enter the Three Kingdoms era! Who is fighting for the future!
Oracle acquired Sun for $7.4 billion. Oracle, which has swept across the software field, also took the opportunity to enter the hardware field. Oracle's move is bound to face the competition with IT giants IBM and HP. The competition between IBM and HP will also be broken, and the IT industry will enter the Three Kingdoms era.

Oracle is a personalized company that adheres to the characteristics of its chief executive, herison. Over the years, herison has only used green ink to sign because it is the color of dollar notes. Previously, a foreign website once commented that Larry Ellis is Barton. During the Second World War, General Patton once led the Third Army to sweep the European battlefield.

Today, the general of the IT industry has made another shot, acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion, and Oracle, which has swept across the software field, has also taken the opportunity to enter the hardware field. Oracle's move is bound to face the competition with IT giants IBM and HP. The competition between IBM and HP will also be broken, and the IT industry will enter the Three Kingdoms era.

From software to hardware Oracle to build a full business Product Line

In IT enterprises, IBM and Hewlett-Packard are all business companies oriented to enterprise users. They not only have servers, storage, software, services, and other businesses. In the past five years, Oracle has completed the transformation from a database company to an enterprise-class software enterprise in Full-industry wireless through the acquisition of Renke, Siebel, BEA and other companies.

In fact, Oracle has a deep relationship with Sun, and earlier Oracle database products were Sun-based Solaris. The compatibility of the two products has always been good. After Oracle acquired Sun, the two were further integrated.

In addition, Oracle acquired MySQL by acquiring Sun.

In the database field, as a rising star, MySQL has been trying to hit oracle in this market. Unlike MySQL, Oracle has been focusing on the high-end database market. By acquiring Sun, Oracle will have a large user base for MySQL and be able to provide customers with an entry-level database software in the database software business.

Today, through the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can not only include Sun's operating system and mySQL into the company's product sequence, but also get involved in hardware fields such as storage and servers that the company has never entered.

Sun Ding, editor-in-chief of the computer world, believes that the primary consideration for Oracle's acquisition of Sun is to move towards a full-business company through this move, which is also a general trend of IT enterprise development. On this road, oracle went fast.

Sun's technology is good but not well-managed

Sun has always held a place in the IT field in terms of technology, and has exceeded IBM and HP in some technical aspects. For example, Sun's leading position in the Java field can even compete with Microsoft.

As a matter of fact, Sun has always been impressed by a technology-leading company that has invested heavily in innovation. According to Sun, Sun spent $1.8 billion in R & D even after the financial crisis last year, accounting for 13% of the company's sales revenue, far exceeding IBM and HP.

However, this technology-leading company was once faced with a dilemma in terms of operation. Sun's commercial operation capabilities seem to be inferior to those of competitors such as IBM and HP, some people in the industry even commented that the company is a technical giant and a commercial dwarf ".

Especially in the last two years, the company's continued decline in performance has left the company in a dilemma. Scott McNealy, CEO of the company for 22 years, has also retired from the second-tier position. Later, Sun had to cut down the company's spending through continuous layoffs.

It is difficult to find a breakthrough in business, and is also considered one of the important reasons why Sun has been surrounded by mergers and acquisitions in recent years. News that Sun will be acquired from the end of last year is rampant. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sun has been in contact with a large number of technical companies in recent months and hopes to be acquired. Hewlett-Packard rejected Sun's offer, and IBM is negotiating with Sun regarding the offer to expand its server market share. IBM may have to pay at least $6.5 billion in cash, but the two parties did not reach an agreement.

Face the IBM and hp it industry into the Three Kingdoms Era

The Representative color of the IT industry is blue. From the trademark color of many IT manufacturers, we can see that IBM, HP, SAP, Intel, and so on have chosen blue without exception. However, unlike the blue colors selected by many giants, Oracle's trademark colors are red.

Oracle prefers red because Red represents the enthusiasm of fire, blood surging, and it also reflects the character of James.

Today, Larry herison, with the red gene, is taking another step on his IT Empire Road. Oracle's acquisition of Sun will be able to provide enterprises with products such as programming languages, application servers, databases, servers, storage systems, file systems, and operating systems.

In the past, Oracle competitors could list a long list: Microsoft, IBM, SAP ...... For example, in the database field, Oracle and IBM's DB2 competition is fierce, and there is also a competitive relationship with Microsoft's SQL sever; In the middleware field, Oracle and IBM's middleware are also in a tit for tat; in the field of software management, Oracle and SAP are also struggling.

Today, this list will be added to Sun's new quota, which will include another IT giant, Hewlett-Packard, which currently maintains close partnerships with Oracle.

This is also a huge risk for Oracle to acquire Sun.

At the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco at the end of last September, Larry herison presented the HP Oracle Database machine, Exadata, to more than 40 thousand attendees. The machine, known as the fastest data storage system in history, was successfully developed by Oracle and HP in three years.

It is understood that Oracle will be responsible for product sales and system support, while HP is responsible for hardware delivery and service. It can be seen that the division of labor between the two parties is very clear, and the product will also be branded with the two brands.

Today, Oracle has acquired Sun's server, storage, and other product lines. As a result, it is bound to overshadow the cooperation between Oracle and HP.

From the financial crisis that gradually escalated at the end of last year, Oracle expanded its business line by acquiring Sun and increased its anti-risk capability.