Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun

[AtW]

.NET wins

[LazyFan]

I think we have to ask for a point of evidence on that.

Expected this year in a rubbish market:
"In those six months, Java accounted for $101m in billings"
Source

I know I said profit but $200m in a year on billings should make you a profit for just software. And I am sure if you looked at last years earnings report it did in fact say around £200m profit.

JAVA does make money.

[minestrone]

Expected this year in a rubbish market:
"In those six months, Java accounted for $101m in billings"
Source

I know I said profit but $200m in a year on billings should make you a profit for just software. And I am sure if you looked at last years earnings report it did in fact say around £200m profit.

JAVA does make money.

I expect this is going to down to sematics, I agree they have made a few coppers off me doing my certifications, they make a good bit from training but from actual java it is a loss leader. $101 is the turnover of a football club, it is not a revenue stream that can support a company the size of SUN.

I think SUN are a great company, java is the best language to develop in, glassfish is massively better than websphere, weblogic, jboss or oracle's AS. Netbeans is a mile ahead of eclipse which is industry standard. Yet I work in RAD.

I am glad that oracle got them infront of IBM, IBM got to develop much of java in the early days and their parts of the JDK stink.

[jkoder]

Didn't know SUN and JAVA were acronyms

Not too sure what to make of this deal at the moment, I guess anything is speculation until more times passes by.

[oracleslave]

Not too sure what to make of this deal at the moment,

Me either. Seems like a lot of money to splash out. They paid about a 40% premium. Still it gives oracle access to a fantastic customer base I guess.

[Platypus]

Me either. Seems like a lot of money to splash out. They paid about a 40% premium. Still it gives oracle access to a fantastic customer base I guess.

Most of whom were customers already - I've rarely seen a SUN machine not running an Oracle database.

As for mySQL accounting for "95%" of the databases in the world, I think not. Their own site is even a bit vague about the figures (referring to percentages of developers who use it). Nevertheless I'm impressed as I didn't realise it had such takeup.

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/