Future could be brighter for Sun as it merges with Oracle
It has been announced today that approval has finally been given for Oracle to merge with Sun Microsystems. The process began in September 2009 which means that its been long enough for plenty of rumours to go around about whats going to happen both internally with head count cuts, and of course with the product line itself. Most importantly, the people with power to make decisions in these two structures now actually have the opportunity to go ahead and make those decisions.
If Larry is true to his word about what he sees for the future of the Sun product line, I for one would certainly say that the future is going to be fairly bright.
Mr Ellisons (CEO of Oracle) own words:
“We are keeping everything. We are keeping tape, we are keeping storage, we are keeping x86 technology, we’re keeping SPARC technology, we’re going to increase the investment in it…”
“…we are NOT going to spin anything off.”
The discussions about improving data center power consumption efficiency and increasing demand for online services place the T-series equipment very well for those who know just how good they are. Coupled with the fact that Sun had famously invested early in the R+D for this kind of technology, theres also a great opportunity to get OpenSolaris beefed up in terms of packages and installers, and deployed in these environments.
I’m looking forward to seeing how its all going to pan out!
