Comments on: When a Merger Softens Competition: The Oracle-Sun Case http://wallstreetpit.com/12020-when-a-merger-softens-competition-the-oracle-sun-case Tue, 22 May 2012 19:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex Passant http://wallstreetpit.com/12020-when-a-merger-softens-competition-the-oracle-sun-case#comment-79492 Alex Passant Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:22:50 +0000 http://wallstreetpit.com/?p=12020#comment-79492 What planet are you on? Red Hat supplies Java middleware, so does VMware. And there are another 20 fringe players, from Sybase to SAP that play a role as well. Do your homework!! What planet are you on? Red Hat supplies Java middleware, so does VMware. And there are another 20 fringe players, from Sybase to SAP that play a role as well. Do your homework!!

]]> By: Implicate_order http://wallstreetpit.com/12020-when-a-merger-softens-competition-the-oracle-sun-case#comment-79485 Implicate_order Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:58:40 +0000 http://wallstreetpit.com/?p=12020#comment-79485 Anyone who has even the most rudimentary understanding of databases will know that Oracle and MySQL play in two completely different playing fields. They cannot possibly be competitors, just because both are databases. Oracle is an enterprise-class database which is used for massive OLTP-type workloads. With the release of Oracle 11g R2, oracle also came of age in the OLAP market (primarily dominated by Terradata and it's like). MySQL is a niche product since it's primary applicability is in Web-based applications (being the "M" in LAMP or SAMP). Oracle will not be able to change much in the global web marketplace after this merger because of two reasons: 1) A large number of implementations of mySQL on the internet aren't really customers of Sun/MySQL today anyway. There is an entire ecosystem of developers, support (in a very unconventional, OSS-kind of way) that exists to address that space. 2) Any new support subscriptions that happen would continue exactly the way it has for Sun, since it bought MySQL The main reason behind this entire brouhaha about the merger is basically the result of competitors of Oracle/Sun and a greedy Monty Widenius who wasn't satisfied selling his company/product to Sun for a vulgar 1 Billion dollars, and now is looking to capitalize on Oracle's hand being forced by the EU into spinning off or somehow discarding MySQL from the mix. I wouldn't be surprised if somehow it was revealed that Monty is being fed secretly by the likes of IBM, HP and SAP. What this does however is affect the lives and businesses who depend on Sun for their hardware and software. Not to mention that Sun employees, who are caught in the midst of this nastiness. The author is advised to first learn a thing or two about databases, then about open source and then make his "sage pronouncements" about the merits of the EU Bullying that is underway at the moment! Anyone who has even the most rudimentary understanding of databases will know that Oracle and MySQL play in two completely different playing fields. They cannot possibly be competitors, just because both are databases.

Oracle is an enterprise-class database which is used for massive OLTP-type workloads. With the release of Oracle 11g R2, oracle also came of age in the OLAP market (primarily dominated by Terradata and it’s like).

MySQL is a niche product since it’s primary applicability is in Web-based applications (being the “M” in LAMP or SAMP). Oracle will not be able to change much in the global web marketplace after this merger because of two reasons:

1) A large number of implementations of mySQL on the internet aren’t really customers of Sun/MySQL today anyway. There is an entire ecosystem of developers, support (in a very unconventional, OSS-kind of way) that exists to address that space.

2) Any new support subscriptions that happen would continue exactly the way it has for Sun, since it bought MySQL

The main reason behind this entire brouhaha about the merger is basically the result of competitors of Oracle/Sun and a greedy Monty Widenius who wasn’t satisfied selling his company/product to Sun for a vulgar 1 Billion dollars, and now is looking to capitalize on Oracle’s hand being forced by the EU into spinning off or somehow discarding MySQL from the mix. I wouldn’t be surprised if somehow it was revealed that Monty is being fed secretly by the likes of IBM, HP and SAP.

What this does however is affect the lives and businesses who depend on Sun for their hardware and software. Not to mention that Sun employees, who are caught in the midst of this nastiness.

The author is advised to first learn a thing or two about databases, then about open source and then make his “sage pronouncements” about the merits of the EU Bullying that is underway at the moment!

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