It remains to be seen how the competitive landscape will be affected by the Sun-Oracle combination. Microsoft officials warn the deal could add complexity and cost for some customers, a notion disputed by several analysts. In addition to Microsoft, Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, a business-software company that competes with Oracle, thinks the deal will complicate things and be more expensive for customers.
Companies "will have to recalibrate their relationship with Oracle. This is going to have a big bearing on the industry, no doubt about it.
The biggest impact, of course, will be on Oracle. And the fallout could be significant, says Ray Wang, a vice president of Forrester Research. Thanks to the worldwide economic meltdown, big companies have been trimming their information technology IT budgets — used to cover the cost of new hardware, software, servers and such.
By joining forces with Sun, he says, Oracle will be better prepared to do battle against IBM and other vendors. History will ultimately judge how big the missed opportunity was for IBM. The computer giant balked, in part, because of regulatory concerns: Sun and IBM both have big positions in the computer server segment. Though IBM worried the overlap wouldn't sit well with antitrust regulators, Wang, for one, thinks that wouldn't have been a big hurdle.
IBM's loss is all the more poignant "when you consider that Oracle only offered slightly more than what IBM was offering," he says. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Even without Microsoft, Apple was doing plenty to hurt itself.
The company put out digital cameras and games consoles instead of focusing on core products. Cupertino also made a disastrous clone Mac deal that cost the company money and watered down its brand. Regis Hotel to begin working out details of a stock swap that would, as with the previous deal, put the Sun CEO in charge.
By the end of , everything had changed. But things could have been very, very different. Mobile menu toggle. More than 1, former employees of Sun Microsystems gathered near San Francisco International Airport recently to reminisce about the glory days.
In attendance were all four founders of the company—Andreas Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, and Bill Joy—who offered their perspectives on the technology business, past and present. Sun fell on hard times a decade ago and ended up being bought by Oracle, with the sale completed in early But Sun had made its mark on the technology landscape, and the company is fondly remembered by former employees, many of whom gathered near San Francisco International Airport on September 28 for their second reunion since the Oracle acquisition.
This company could do well to do one-one-hundredth of what we did. Prior to the formal festivities, the company founders met with a small group of press persons. Pondering recent developments in computing, Bill Joy, who is now concentrating on climate change solutions, recalled that Sun tried to do natural language processing , but the hardware was not fast enough.
Regarding the emergence of the iPhone, Joy said the advent of mobility and data networks has been transformational for society. He noted that Sun had that kind of vision with Java ME, with Sun trying to do programmable smartphones.
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