What are the impacts of Oracle's SUN acquisition?

Today, we are mainly talking about the impact of Oracle's acquisition of sun. We all know that Oracle's acquisition of sun has already caused an uproar in the industry. It can be said that there are different opinions and opinions, some are bad. The following is a discussion of 10 focal points. You may wish to take a look.

1. MySQL is dead or active.?

What is the future of MySQL, as SUN, in poor performance and still squandering $1 billion worth of purchased assets? Someone analyzed that killing MySQL could give Oracle databases more market opportunities. However, Oracle databases mainly take the high-end path. MySQL is the choice of small and medium markets. Killing MySQL means that Oracle should persuade small and medium-sized users to choose expensive Oracle database products, or send potential users to the database of Microsoft SQL Server. Therefore, it is not a bad choice to let MySQL and Oracle databases go forward in a balance between the low-end and high-end markets.

2. How can we develop the Java Community?

As SUN's computer language, Java has become a brand and open industrial standard in the software community for more than a decade. SUN can change everything in recent years, that is, Java is sticking to its own hands. Oracle's acquisition of Java is definitely a great fortune.

Not only because many Oracle products are based on the Java platform, but also because Oracle can speak Java with IBM straight back and. net. Therefore, Oracle has a reason and resources to continue to support the Java Community. But the key is that Oracle is a more closed business company than SUN, how much knowledge does Oracle have to push Java?

3 is Solaris young?

It's too late to open. This is a general view of SUN's Solaris policy. SUN has been sticking to the Space + Solaris high-end market. The Solaris system was opened up until the market space squeezed by the LAMP architecture was reduced. Oracle's Solaris System is an interesting topic. It must be remembered that Oracle had gone through redhat without an operating system and launched an Oracle Linux version. Therefore, Oracle finally achieved a good operating system at the product level. It depends on how it works?

4. Impact on open source?

For a long time, MySQL and Java are all signs of open source. Oracle is a closed business company, and many people worry that Oracle has acquired SUN. To some extent, it has declared a failure in the open-source software industry, which may even result in a regression of software development. However, from another perspective, if we raise open-source or free software to a philosophical perspective, there is no doubt that the commercial Oracle acquisition is full of learning SUN, it has an impact on open source software.

However, if we regard open source as a business model, Oracle would be happy to do so for a long time.

5 What is the future of SUN's hardware business?

Oracle used to be a software vendor and is also working with hardware vendors such as HP. Now Oracle has its own hardware through the acquisition. Oracle's partners in the original server market suddenly became competitors. Some people boldly predict that Oracle will sell SUN's Hardware in another hand to reduce the cost of this purchase. But the problem is that McNealy and Ellison seem to have been known as it's madmen, and selling SUN's Hardware seems to make the incident less interesting.

6 new weather in the server market?

I still remember that in the honeymoon period of Oracle and SUN, Oracle Enterprise Edition database software will become an option when users purchase several servers specified by SUN. SUN will pay the Oracle License fee for the user, and the user only needs to bear certain support maintenance costs. Now that Oracle and SUN are "married", Oracle software and SUN's Hardware servers can be bundled together to make them more bold. Oracle has the following advantages in the Server market: Operating System (Solaris, Linux) + database (Oracle, MySQL) + middleware (Oracle Application Server, BEA, SUN Appserver ), although SUN is not the top server market share, Oracle can definitely bring a new atmosphere to the server market.

7 is the middleware market quiet?

This Oracle purchase does not seem to have made a new division of the middleware product market from the technical product perspective. But Java is a noteworthy part. Java is industry standard, but Java is Oracle. IBM, a large middleware market, is also very dependent on Java.

8. Why does IBM Miss SUN?

The breakdown of the negotiations between IBM and SUN has led to Oracle-SUN. From the perspective of the product line, Oracle-SUN absolutely puts a lot of pressure on IBM. However, the acquisition of SUN by IBM is not necessarily a good thing. First, there is a serious overlap in the product line. Chip server market: SUN is the iSCSI, IBM is the Power architecture, SUN is the Solaris operating system, and IBM is the aix unix, database: SUN is MYSQL and IBM is DB2. Secondly, in recent years, IBM's main revenue has shifted from hardware to software and services. If Oracle acquires SUN, it will undoubtedly cause another troublesome problem for IBM's declining hardware business. Therefore, although IBM has not acquired SUN, it cannot be said to be a bad thing.

9 is Microsoft a blessing?

Some people think that Oracle-SUN's cooperation will allow many hardware vendors, such as HP, to turn to Microsoft for closer development. Maybe, but from another point of view, Microsoft has always been relying on Intel to compete in the enterprise server market. Previously, only IBM was able to provide a complete set of software and hardware services. Now Oracle is coming, from IT infrastructure + enterprise application software. This is bound to further squeeze Wintel's market share and lose the platform, making it even worse for companies with less powerful server-side application software. At present, Microsoft can only focus on its IE8, windows7, and Office 2010.

10 layoff

Inevitably, there is no space to imagine. In last November, SUN announced the layoff of 5000 to 6000 employees, accounting for 18% of the total number of employees. The merger of Oracle-SUN will inevitably further adjust the original structure of SUN. However, for an innovative company, it would be unwise to cut down the technical staff. Instead, we should take over the redundant Sales and Marketing personnel.

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