Five Ideas: Sun
Hear what experts are saying about the recent acquisition.
April 2009
“[Sun is] critical to our continued success in middleware and our next-generation of fusion applications." —CEO Larry Ellison
“Sun is a pioneer in enterprise computing, and this combination recognizes the innovation and customer success the company has achieved. Our largest customers have been asking us to step up to a broader role to reduce complexity, risk and cost by delivering a highly optimized stack based on standards.This transaction will preserve and enhance investments made by our customers, while we continue to work with our partners to provide customers with choice."—Oracle President Charles Phillips
“For starters, this deal will give Oracle the ability to engineer a completely integrated [data warehousing] appliance composed of all Oracle components, including hardware and software. Now Oracle will be able to take on Teradata and IBM—both of which have long offered their own integrated solutions—more aggressively with high-performance DW offerings. Just as important, Oracle will be able to leverage Sun’s manufacturing scale economies to bring its all-Oracle DW appliances below the $25K-per-terabyte threshold needed for penetration into the midmarket."—Forrester Research anaylst James Kobielus
“Sun found a buyer who will likely want to put its technology to work immediately and Oracle came across a no-fuss opportunity to get the technology it needs to compete on the big stage... From apps all the way to the data center, Oracle is positioning itself to come in as a one-stop player complete with business hardware, business software and even a computing language in Java." —Sam Diaz, senior editor ZDnet
“This is a fantastic day for Sun’s customers, developers, partners and employees across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace, from the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun’s SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we’ll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace."—Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO
