Industry analysts say Oracle’s purchase of Sun is the most game-changing corporate technology play made during the economic downturn, reported the NY Times, with it now being able to provide all the parts needed to be an end-to-end service provider. "It's the most significant deal of the decade," said Dan Olds, an analyst with Gabriel Consulting. "Oracle has a shot here to change the rules of the industry and usher in a new era."
There is a newfound interest in reselling Sun hardware despite the European Union’s investigation into the Sun-Oracle deal, writes John Taylor, Sun business unit director at Interface Solutions. In a column for CRN, Taylor states that “wise” resellers are realizing the potentially wider benefits of working with Sun post-acquisition by Oracle, and he details why.
Oracle OpenWorld 2009 brought Sun executives and technologies to the center stage during the five-day event held in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Sun co-founder Scott McNealy made the final keynote on day one of the conference to a packed Hall D Moscone North. He reflected on the top 10 innovations from Sun, and the technologies that will get even more funding from Oracle following the acquisition. Following McNealy on stage, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said combining Oracle and Sun's technology would let Oracle "do things neither company would be able to do by themselves."
Bruce Guptill, managing director for Saugatuck Technology, a research-based market strategy consulting firm, offered an opinion on how the Oracle-Sun merger may impact the IT industry. In an opening statement, Guptill emphasizes how significant this buyout will be to reshaping the IT vendor ecosystem. "We cannot emphasize this enough: Oracle buying Sun changes the shape of the IT industry," he writes, "in effect creating a new, full-line hardware, software and services Master Brand..."
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