Oracle to continue supporting SPARC/Solaris
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2009-09-10 18:18
Appeared as a full page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. You have to admit Larry Ellison that he has a sense of humor. Anyway, I'm glad that Oracle will continue work on improving Sun technologies, both hardware (SPARC) and software (Solaris). But it remains to be seen what happens with other products that Sun acquired (before Oracle bought Sun) that are not mentioned explicitly in the ad. Stuff like MySQL database, VirtualBox virtualization and so on...
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Statement of Oracle Corporation
Today (November 09, 2009), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) issued the following statement:
Oracle's acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high end server market, for revitalizing Sparc and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform. The transaction does not threaten to reduce competition in the slightest, including in the database market. The Commission's Statement of Objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics. It is well understood by those knowledgeable about open source software that because MySQL is open source, it cannot be controlled by anyone. That is the whole point of open source.
The database market is intensely competitive with at least eight strong players, including IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and three distinct open source vendors. Oracle and MySQL are very different database products. There is no basis in European law for objecting to a merger of two among eight firms selling differentiated products. Mergers like this occur regularly and have not been prohibited by United States or European regulators in decades.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0557070.htm
Ellison: We won’t spin off MySQL
Undaunted by European Union concerns over Oracle's proposed ownership of the open source MySQL database, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison insisted Monday that he would not spin off MySQL to get EU approval of Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems and that Oracle's database does not compete with MySQL.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/ellison-we-won’t-spin-mysql-653
Letter to the EC opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL
http://keionline.org/ec-mysql
We are writing to express our opposition to the proposed acquisition of MySQL as part of the larger merger between Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation.
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a non-profit public interest organization, supporting work carried out earlier by the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), an organization that has in the past participated in a number of merger reviews, including those involving legal publishing, retail distribution, and media concentration and telecommunications regulation. KEI uses MySQL to power several different web page platforms, including those run by Free/Libre/ and Open Source (FLOSS) content management systems such as Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress.
Sun to lay off another 3,000 employees
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10379673-92.html
Sun Microsystems plans to cut as many as 3,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its global workforce, during the next year as it prepares for Oracle's takeover of the company.
The cuts, revealed on Tuesday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, represent the second major round of layoffs in a year for the server maker.
US Senators Go to Bat for Oracle, Sun Merger
The European Commission's hesitation over Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems has prompted 59 U.S. senators to weigh in on the matter, urging the EC to allow the deal to proceed. The DoJ has already taken a similar step. How the Europeans will respond to this additional pressure from U.S. politicians is questionable.
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/68750.html
Fifty-nine U.S. senators are asking European antitrust regulators to conclude their review of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The move, led by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is an unusual one for the U.S. legislative body.
It follows a similar action by the Department of Justice, which also urged the Commission to wrap up the investigation. Whether this growing pressure from the U.S. will have the desired effect, however, is debatable.
Earlier this month, the Commission issued a formal statement of objections to the proposed US$7.4 billion deal Increase Customer Sales with Email Marketing -- Free Trial from VerticalResponse, based on a perceived threat to competition -- namely, that Oracle ownership of Sun's open source MySQL database software might represent unacceptable consolidation in the database space.
The Justice Department, which approved the deal this summer, has asked the Commission to consider the variety of choices customers would still have after an Oracle-Sun merger.