Oh, I Gotta Bad Feeling About This Yogi

[furrbear]

Oracle to Buy Sun

SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 20, 2009 Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.

Comments

[winstonthriller.livejournal.com]

I have never known anyone who worked for a company acquired by Oracle to end up anything but shell shocked and bitter.

[javabear.livejournal.com]

yeah... what will happen to OpenOffice and mySQL?

[ursusarctos.livejournal.com]

Why worry Boo? Has Larry Ellison *ever* been unreasonable with employees, vendors, competitors, developers or customers? See! Nothing to see here, move along... */snark*

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

he can have slowlaris. MySQL will just fork off. *shrug*

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

Will NOTHING stop the juggernaut that is Oracle?

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

PostgreSQL ftw.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

^^ Yes, this also

[bearcubbnc.livejournal.com]

This finally stops the rumor that IBM was going to buy Sun. No less than 8 folks have asked me in the last few weeks about the imminent purchase. "I have no idea... IBM doesn't tell me anything?"

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

I convert mySQL apps to PostgreSQL when I can.

Have for years. It's what, 20 years old? I can recall early Postgres on Ultrix.

I'm surprised there's been a decent amount of activity out of Oracle with Berkeley DB. Still, I'll probably keep migrating from mySQL when I can.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

postgres has had so many features MySQL has only acquired recently. It's a no brainer. ;) Where I can, I use postgres automatically.

[enigmacub.livejournal.com]

Oh great! Yet another product we currently resell that will be taken out of the sales channel and we will have to wait 6 months to a year to find out IF we will be able to resell it again or not.

[qnetter]

It wasn't a rumor -- it was a failed and very well-covered negotiation. IBM tried to lower their offer again, Sun withdrew their exclusivity, and IBM stepped back from the table.