Oracle Announces Completion of Sun Acquisition
Tom Coughlin
1/27/2010
Sun is officially integrated into Oracle and the combined company announced integration of initiatives and products from both companies to provide solutions and support for many business sectors. Oracle is combining HW and SW stacks providing provisioning , virtualization and system deployment as well as monitoring and troubleshooting, patching and configuration of these stacks.
Among initiatives announced were those around MySQL, which will be run as part of the open source business unit, working to make this integrated with the rest of the Oracle SW stack. OpenOffice will be integrated into Oracle Cloud Office, a web-based productivity suite for desktop, web and mobile user interaction. Oracle will invest in both Solaris and Linux, optimizing both OSs for full stack support from applications to disk and provide world class support for both OSs.
The capabilities of Oracle VM are extended to allow virtualization solutions from the desktop to the server, including storage virtualization. VM templates are pre-built and pre-installed to download from Oracle into a VM Server Pool and give quick implementation. Customers can download these VM templates for free, they would pay if want support. Oracle VM support x86 and SPARQ—one Virualization solution for both platforms.
Desktop virtualization is a hot topic. Oracle’s VM VirtualBox allows creating virtual machines on desktop computers that can then be imported into a business system. Secure global Desktop, presents apps and data from nearly any virtualized server as if they are local to a desktop computer. Larry Ellison said that everything is clustered computing (now known as cloud) and Oracle has been working on this for 15 years.
Oracle is used as the database software for almost all “Cloud” computing applications. Many people have been doing this sort of clustered computing for years and making money using these technologies. Ellison says that the “cloud” is computers, databases and applications, which have been around for a long time.
Oracle continues Sun’s promotion of flash memory in enterprise applications. Oracle is supporting the use of flash memory storage to provide differentiation in their system performance. It is interesting that the company now supports every tier of storage, from performance driven flash memory applications to price driven tape technology.
Larry Ellison said that the company will sell directly to its top 4,000 customers. It is Oracle’s goal to make best of breed components and make these products work together. Oracle/Sun can deliver this better than any company on planet, including IBM. The company sees continued value in its tape technology (acquired from Sun). Sun customers are glad that the uncertainty in the past is gone.
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