Oracle
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Soracle
Proposed stock symbol: SORE Customer line: “I’m a SORE customer…” Rejected names: Sunacle? Too close to Unocal. Orasun? Sounds like a cloying dental product. Orsun? You could easily swap Ellison for Hearst in the remake of Citizen Kane… Ok, so this isn’t a merger of equals. It is the end of Sun. Only Oracle survives. …
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MySQL or My Bad?
I was wondering a few months ago how Sun’s MySQL acquisition would impact their relationship with Oracle: How has the MySQL acquisition by Sun impacted the relationship with Sun’s biggest historical partner, Oracle? I may be misjudging Oracle’s leadership, history and culture, but my guess is they view databases as their birthright and treat any…
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Oracle BEArs Down
With a $6.66 billion (numerologists take note) unsolicited, all-cash bid for BEA Systems, Oracle further cements their role as the new Computer Associates, i.e. the ecosystem scavenger. BEA seems to have accepted they’re in the endgame, quibbling only about valuation and not their independence. Quick thoughts:The acquisition suggests Oracle’s Fusion middleware may not be quite the juggernaut the…