Monday, April 20, 2009

Oracle to buy Sun

Oracle announced today that they will buy Sun for 7.4 billion dollars. Oracle wants an end to end enterprise set of solutions.

Amongst the other assets will be the Java programming language. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out in the development arena. While many had been pushing for Java to become an open source language, this move would seem to further segment the development environments into three camps:
  • Java / Oracle DB
  • Microsoft .Net / SQL Server
  • Open source languages (PHP/Python/Ruby) / MySQL (or other alternatives like SQLite)
It will be interesting on where this all leads...