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Quotes from the new overview/FAQ document regarding the Oracle/Sun merger

Wednesday, October 28. 2009

There is a new overview/FAQ document regarding the planned Oracle/Sun merger available at oracle.com. I will cite some key passages in this article.

Openoffice

After the transaction closes, Oracle plans to continue developing and supporting OpenOffice as open source. As before, some of the larger customers will ask for extra assurances, support, and enterprise tools. For these customers we expect to offer a typical commercial license option.

Mysql

Oracle plans to spend more money developing MySQL than Sun does now. Oracle expects to continue to develop and provide the open source MySQL database after the transaction closes. Oracle plans to add MySQL to Oracle’s existing suite of database products, which already includes Berkeley DB, an open source database.

Glassfish

Oracle plans to continue evolving GlassFish Enterprise Server, delivering it as the open source reference implementation (RI) of the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specifications, and actively supporting the large GlassFish community.
Virtualization
We expect to continue Sun’s desktop virtualization products: VDI, Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray, and VirtualBox.

Networking
Sun’s products and investments in silicon, switching, and software in networking are core to our plans for developing clusters of servers and storage that deliver the highest possible performance and manageability. We plan to enhance investments in this area, particularly in software, so that we can deliver these integrated systems.

Storage
We plan to enhance investments in Sun’s storage core areas, with a focus on integration, performance, manageability, and security.

x86
We plan to continue to engineer server and appliance products based on x86.

SPARC
We plan to enhance our investment in the SPARC processor and in SPARC systems, combined with software engineering, to continue to create leadership in highly energy efficient, scalable, and mission critical systems.

Solaris
Oracle plans to enhance our investment in Solaris to push core technologies to the next level as quickly as possible.

Systems for other things than Oracle, Oracle on other vendors systems
In addition to offering a complete system to its customers, Oracle plans to continue to build leading hardware and software system components using technologies based on open standards, giving customers choice.

Ops Center
Oracle Enterprise Manager and Sun Ops Center are expected to combine and deliver to customers the most complete top-down application and systems management environment from applications to hardware.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Oracle, Solaris, The IT Business at 14:43 | Comments (4)

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This looks very good. Now we just need the final approval...

#1 Thommy M. Malmström on 2009-10-28 15:28

Well, that looks terminal for xVM server.

I hope there's a solution in place soon. With ZFS for VM storage, I'd really like a decent hypervisor for Solaris hosts.

#2 Ric on 2009-10-28 16:04

I can't help noticing that you neglected to quote the "By the way, we may change any or all of these statements twenty seconds into the future" disclaimer at the end of page 5/5.