It's a complicated picture that Paul Krill sketches in his CIO article "A Year Later: Has Oracle Ruined or Saved Sun?" The answer is ambiguous, necessarily, given the number of Sun technologies that Oracle has terminated (along with key engineering personnel who have left), and the former customers of Sun, some of whom are still in limbo over the future of their underlying Sun-based infrastructure. It's almost as though Scott McNealy was still running things. There have been some profitable synergies as a result of the acquisition, Krill concedes, synergies that promise abundant profit. But, perhaps a less ambiguous answer could be arrived at were the question, "What if Oracle had not acquired Sun; would there still be a Sun Microsystems?" And, then, the industry itself is undergoing vast changes. Consider the irony that part of Facebook is now housed in Sun's former corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park.
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Redundancy is sometimes the salvation of technology. Certainly in the case involving the supposed holdings of the Computer History Museum, without redundancy and YouTube, the "Sun Microsystems Founders Panel" (Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and moderator John Gage) would have vanished forever since the video disappeared mysteriously from the museum's web site during the confusion around the reorganization reflecting Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Now, in all their glory, the founding four, courtesy of YouTube, share their personal stories of the early days at Sun.
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Take a few minutes to read Gavin Clarke's revealing account in The Register of Scott McNealy's post-acquisition reflections. There are several choice McNealy quotes, such as, "I think we got the donate part right, I don't think we got the monetize part right." And this: "If we'd have just decided to release Solaris on metal instead of shrink wrapped, Solaris on Intel would have been a wild hit and nobody would have done Linux."
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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."
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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.
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