Oracle buys Sun, and another one for the collection
The blogreaders keep popping up with the blogs about the new acquisition of Oracle.
Lately Oracle already bought BEA, and from this acquisition the new stack isn’t even ready yet.
A lot of new products, overlapping eachother so Oracle will need to decide what products will go on on development, and what will parts will flow away.
IDE
- Oracle Jdeveloper
- Eclipse
- Netbeans
JVM
- Sun JDK
- JRocket
Application Server
- Oracle AS/OC4J (already replaced)
- BEA Weblogic
- Sun Glassfish
SOA Integration
- Oracle SOA Suite
- Open ESB
Database
- Oracle DB
- MySQL
SSO
- Oracle SSO
- OpenSSO
Portal
- Sun Portal Server
- Oracle Portal
- BEa Portal Server
DS
- Oracle Internet Directory
- OpenDS
The list isn’t completed but it will just give a short overview, i will add more compairs later.
I think in most situations Oracle will keep supporting the several versions of the products in the stacks.
After the BEA acquisition we already had a few products in the stack with overlap, but if we compair BEA and Oracle they both had a set of ‘closed/propriatery’ products/functionality.
The portfolio of Sun is mostly based (for as far i know) on open source products with a really big community behind it. I don’t think Oracle would spoil this big part of the market and on they other site would replace every ‘closed product’ with a open source variant of the Sun stack.
So i think it will be on the one site a mix of Oracle/BEA products and on the other site the portfolio for the Sun portfolio (open source).
Besides just filling in a new portfolio (again) of the overall stack of Oracle, i think they will even more invest and support the open source community.
Good to see some can still enjoy a bit of humor!
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Couple more:
Linux – Solaris
OracleVM – VirtualBox + server virtualization tools (also xen based i think)
btrfs – zfs
oracle enterprise collaboration (beehive) – sun messaging/calendar server
The directory server of sun is very cool and better then OID , sun messaging is very popular with isp and you forget the sun one products ( formely called iplanet / netscape, they call it java sun one but these are programmed in c )
and they have seebeyond .
By the way, what happened to all the SeeBeyond products? Did they all go into CAPS.
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