Originally Posted By: javacontour
My concern about an IBM buyout of Sun is that SPARC/Solaris was less likely in my opinion to be kept around.
SPARC hardware is Sun's best selling product, no? Why would Oracle shell out that kinda scratch and dump the golden goose?
Oh, that's right: They have no experience in hardware.
Originally Posted By: javacontour
I wonder if Oracle will find any use for the mySQL products owned by Sun. Perhaps reaching smaller customer installations where traditional Oracle offerings were too pricey to attract those customers.
That was my first concern, but even in the worst case scenario, there are several forks of MySQL that could rise to ubiquity.
Oracle's database and MySQL, though, are in very, very different markets and have probably evolved to serve those users better than the other could. I cannot see the zillions of LAMP servers (and projects that run on them) out there suddenly shelling out a gazillion bucks to become "LAOP" servers any more than I can see enterprise usage of MySQL.