Thursday, April 23, 2009
Few thoughts on Oracle's acquisition of Sun
"Oracle acquires Sun", a major news item being discussed in specially Oracle and Sun community. On April 20th 2009, Oracle has announced that an agreement was placed to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). They say that the acquisition would combine best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. According to what Oracle says, the plan is to deliver an integrated system which consists of all the pieces fit and work together so that customers do not have to do the integrations. This sounds good so far.But, I am still curious about the future of Java Community Process (JCP). Among organizations like Apache Software Foundation, Elipse Foundation Inc., Google, IBM, Intel, Springsource etc., Oracle is also an executive member of JCP. With acquisition of Sun by Oracle, although, it is too early to predict the future of JCP, I assume that there would be a considerable impact on JCP. May be Oracle would take the control of JCP.
Another area as a Java fan, I am interested is the Java Open Source Community. With the acquisition, I am bit scared about open source products in IT industry. For example, It is predictable that GlassFish which is an open source application server would have a huge impact from Weblogic server which is owned by Oracle after the acquisition of BEA. How about Sun’s MySQL open source database customers? I assume there would be a huge impact on MySQL with this acquisition from industry leading commercial DBMS Oracle.
On the other hand, I would be happy to assume that improvements to OpenOffice could be seen in the future with this acquisition. A good competition will be there between OpenOffice and MS Office.
The deal has not been closed yet and it is too early to predict what would happen in each community due to Oracle's acquisition of Sun. It is obvious that acquisition has made Oracle more powerful than ever and it would be interesting to see the reaction from IBM.
# posted by Amila Nilantha @ 12:12 
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