Letter from Sun explaining Oracle's acquisition

UnixGuy

We received this yesterday...

Dear Sun Partner

Most of you have probably read the news regarding Oracle's Proposed
Acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Attached is a message from Peter Ryan - Sun's Executive Vice President
of Global Sales and Services regarding this proposed transaction.

Please do not hesitate to contact either of us if you have any questions
regarding this announcement.


Sincerely,

Steve Furniss Dinesh Bahal

Vice President - SEE GEM Vice President - Partner Sales Org'n
Emerging Markets Region Emerging Markets Region
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
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MESSAGE FROM PETER RYAN

Dear Sun Partner

On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced a definitive agreement to acquire
Sun Microsystems. The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder
approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate
independently and it is business as usual.

This proposed acquisition will combine best-in-class enterprise software
and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle plans to engineer and
deliver an integrated system – applications to disk – where all pieces
fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves.
Customers are expected to benefit as their systems integration costs go
down while system performance, reliability, and security go up.

Sun's core innovations such as Java, Solaris and SPARC are some of the
computer industry’s best known brands and most widely deployed
technologies. Oracle Fusion Middleware is built on top of Java and we
believe that following the acquisition Oracle will be able to ensure
continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit
of customers and the Java community.

The Solaris operating system and SPARC servers are the leading platform
for the Oracle database. With the proposed acquisition of Sun, we
believe Oracle will be able to optimize the Oracle database for some of
the unique and innovative features of Solaris. Like Sun, Oracle supports
many platforms and also remains committed to Linux and other open
platforms and will continue to support and enhance its strong industry
partnerships.

After the closing, Oracle and Sun partners are expected to benefit by
working with a single vendor to address customer needs for enterprise
systems with complementary solutions that provide an opportunity to
increase business value and drive down the total cost of ownership
through an integrated, standards-based enterprise product stack.

We are dedicated to maintaining and increasing the level of innovation,
support and service you have come to expect from Oracle and Sun. To
learn more about the acquisition please visit Sun.com/Oracle.

Sincerely,


Peter Ryan
Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

rossonieri#1

and after the acquisition,
how about the life of mysql?
will SUN still hold its commitment to continue the product?

tiersten

rossonieri#1 wrote: »

and after the acquisition,
how about the life of mysql?
will SUN still hold its commitment to continue the product?

Even before the Oracle deal, the future of MySQL with Sun is a little shaky. Most of the major development is in non Sun controlled forks now.

rossonieri#1

Even before the Oracle deal, the future of MySQL with Sun is a little shaky. Most of the major development is in non Sun controlled forks now.

ya, i think so.
this is the most common *unfriendly* impact of an acquisition.
i've seen that before.

so, tiersten - do you think "another spin-off"?

i'm wondering whether what people on the internet saying about "the Silicon Valley rebel" (SUN) is right? in short - what people saying on the internet is that they (SUN) are big, but just dont know how to maintain their things.

but, what has done is done - i hope things get better for SUN in the future, since this was only a global economic down turned.

UnixGuy

rossonieri#1 wrote: »

and after the acquisition,
how about the life of mysql?
will SUN still hold its commitment to continue the product?

That's an interesting question, which we don't know about yet.

Most of SUN products are Open Source, Solaris, SPARC servers, and storage. So development will continue anyway (or we hope so).


Looks like Oracle's taking the "Application to disk" solution seriously. They want customers to order a fully integrated optimized solution: Application, DataBase, Server, Disk Array, and tape library (or back solution).

Forsaken_GA

More likely than not, Oracle will release any applications they don't want to support back into the open source world to live or die as they will. I don't see them putting alot of effort into mysql.

dynamik

I'm curious if it will slowly transform into an Oracle-lite version that would remain free but get people on-board Oracle. I don't see killing it off as being advantageous for them. It's not like I'm going to switch to Oracle to power WordPress if MySQL goes away.

whatthehell

Thanks for posting --- interesting read!