Oracle and Sun Just Got in Bed Together

Well, Oracle just acquired Sun Microsystems and I think that’s some pretty big news. In case you don’t know, Oracle makes a wide variety of applications but it’s most predominate is its Database Systems application. Sun Microsystems, while mainly a hardware company, is probably best known for Java and it’s OS Solaris. So, it’s kinda interesting to see a purely software company acquire a “hardware” company.

I’ve neve really seen Sun as a hardware company — probably because I’m a student and just haven’t had any real experience with the company’s products. So I still see Sun as a company that makes software with some hardware backing. 

The funny thing about this acquisition is that this will be another huge company that can offer their customers a full end-to-end solution. It’s another Intel, or IBM but, in my mind, it might even be bigger. An assortment of Management apps and suites for business use coupled with an OS and JAVA has got some real potential. Oracle’s previous acquisitions has cost them a little though in layoffs so we’ll have to see what happens here. Sun currently employs 33 000 employees and Oracle employs 86 000 — that’s a big new-to-not-new ratio.

Either way, I’m pretty excited to see what comes of all this. This can have some significant impact on the IT sector of business locally and globally.