Major Change within the IT and Business Landscape
by J. Miller on Apr.27, 2009, under Applications, Computers, Hardware, Internet, Networks, OpenSource, Operating Systems, Reference, Reviews, Software, Web Hosting
MySQL is quite well known as its one of the most popular open-source database systems utilized around the world today. We use it quite heavily within SAFI… as do many IT and non-IT companies. Unfortunately a large marjority of MySQL users will have never heard of Sun Microsystems and Oracle.
The recent $7.4Bil. (USD) buyout of Sun Microsystem’s by Oracle is going to have repercussions that are felt across the entire Info. Tech. landscape worldwide. Changes will be seen and their effects cast upon both the hardware and software sectors of IT; in addition catching many other businesses and end-users outside the IT industries in the midst.
A Quick Overview
Sun owns the rights to MySQL, the entire JAVA language, its own SPARC processor architecture. In addition to these rights they’ve got a full line of x86 and non x86(intel) based hardware; used heavily within the Medicial and Financial industries.
Oracle itself was already a worldwide enterprise level software firm comparable in some ways with IBM and SAP. They’re well known for the high end Oracle database engine that is heavily deployed on (suprise) Sun Microsystems servers. Oracle’s Peoplesoft applications and modules are one of their most notable product brands used by many Forture500 and Fortune100 companies.
Oracle bought Sun… and with that the entire landscape of many industries both IT and non-IT will be effected. How? Who knows for sure right now, but I’m certain it will include both upsides and downsides for everyone effected.
If you want to get a better idea of what all is going on I highly suggest you give the following articles a read: Oracle Buys Sun and Sun and Oracle: End of a Beautiful Dream
I for one can’t wait to see how this acquisition of Sun by Oracle is going to shake everything up in what is already a vastly unstable and constantly changing industry.
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April 29th, 2009 on 3:53 am
What does this mean for OpenOffice.org???
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May 6th, 2009 on 8:29 pm
You know that is an excellent question! I haven’t specifically heard anything as far as Oracles plans for OO, though with its popularity I doubt it will go anywhere. If Oracle itself does not continue OO in the future it will most likely get released into the opensource community and be continued from there. There is already a slight fork called Go-OO that you can get at http://go-oo.org/discover/ which is done by Novell.
May 29th, 2009 on 5:37 am
The future of MySQL remains up in the air. Can the leading open source database still thrive when it’s controlled by the Oracle? So far, the prognosis doesn’t look good.