Oracle Buys Sun

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, 2009 @12:11AM from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

bruunb writes "Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. 'We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle's non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,' said Oracle President Safra Catz."

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New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms by imac.usr · 2009-04-20 00:15 · Score: 5, Funny

1s - free
0s - $10 per 0, minimum 100,000 0s

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1. Re:New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms by kimvette · 2009-04-20 01:19 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  1s - free
  0s - $10 per 0, minimum 100,000 0s
  per processor core, multiplied by the number of megabytes of RAM installed in your system.
  Oh, pardon me, this isn't a production system, but is a development workstation? Allow me to refer you to the above licensing fee schedule. Thank you for choosing Oracle!
  
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2. Re:New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms by MobyDisk · 2009-04-20 02:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Just give me the 1s, and tell me where they go. I'll fill in the 0s myself. :-)
Site already slashdotted ... by mbyte · 2009-04-20 00:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Seems oracle.com is down :(
Somehow i did hoped IBM would go and buy SUN, if this is really definitive .. how do IBM and Oracle play together ?
1. Re:Site already slashdotted ... by jamesh · 2009-04-20 00:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Seems oracle.com is down :(
  They've switch to Solaris already???
  (ducks and runs for cover :)
2. Re:Site already slashdotted ... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-20 01:13 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Seems oracle.com is down :(
  ... and seems to be running behind the F5 BigIP load balancers that featured on /. recently - see netcraft.
Re:Arse. by lambent · 2009-04-20 00:23 · Score: 2, Funny

more likely: will fork furiously and retain aggregate popularity while neither being quite compatible nor actually, ah, storing data reliably.
So, business as usual, then?
Re:What about MySQL? by srinivas_rc · 2009-04-20 00:33 · Score: 2, Funny

you mean harddisk(s)? But I got backup :)

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Re:Well, crap. by ozamosi · 2009-04-20 00:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Is 8am too early to start drinking?
No.
Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-20 00:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Jesus, the Linux weenies are out in force today!
Re:What about MySQL? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-20 00:36 · Score: 5, Funny

What the fuck is "netbeans"? Who uses this java nonsense anyway?
Java 8 Preview by characterZer0 · 2009-04-20 00:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Java 8 will replace String with String2, which will treat empty string and null the same.

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1. Re:Java 8 Preview by ionix5891 · 2009-04-20 01:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  sounds like PHP
Re:Well, crap. by Rik+Sweeney · 2009-04-20 00:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Is 8am too early to start drinking?
That really depends upon your timezone and whether or not you've been to bed yet.

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Re:Wow. Just Wow. by Saint+Stephen · 2009-04-20 00:46 · Score: 2, Funny

I think Oracle on AIX is pretty powerful, and popular.
Re:Well, crap. by El_Muerte_TDS · 2009-04-20 00:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Indeed, because it's 5pm somewhere.
Re:The internal announcement by kaaposc · 2009-04-20 00:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Mr.Schwartz barely managed not saying at the end "I! Love! This! Company!! Yeah!"
You might be able to haggle on the hashes. by wild_berry · 2009-04-20 01:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Per-bit, with the 1's stored being stored free, and the 0's being stored at $10.00 each, payable in bunches of 100,000.
You're playing an incomplete game! by jonaskoelker · 2009-04-20 01:02 · Score: 4, Funny

On paper, Rock
Why won't anyone play with scissors? :(
1. Re:You're playing an incomplete game! by linhares · 2009-04-20 01:30 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  sorry but this is the first real news on slashdot in ages. Nobody is gonna make jokes around here today.
2. Re:You're playing an incomplete game! by toriver · 2009-04-20 05:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Because the scissors were confiscated by airport security.
  But little did they know the paper had edges as sharp as a razor blade...
Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-20 01:04 · Score: 1, Funny

Oracle has shitty products? The database is fantastic. Nothing comes close.
Re:I just hope... by sfraggle · 2009-04-20 01:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey! Did that guy just use "synergies" in a non-ironic fashion? Get him!

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Re:What about MySQL? by Matt+Perry · 2009-04-20 01:13 · Score: 5, Funny

What the fuck is "netbeans"?
They are the seeds of the internet. You plant some and sprinkle them with bits. Eventually they grow into a huge series of tubes. How do you think the internet was created? With lots and lots of netbeans.

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Re:What about MySQL? by A.K.A_Magnet · 2009-04-20 01:18 · Score: 3, Funny

http://www.google.com/search?q=Woosh
Re:What about MySQL? by extremescholar · 2009-04-20 01:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft SQL server

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catz by psyklopz · 2009-04-20 01:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark...
"all your database are belong to us"
Unbreakable by AliasMarlowe · 2009-04-20 01:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Oracle already has Linux (a re-branded RHEL) for it's *NIX platform.
But perhaps they'd prefer something unbreakable. Like Solaris.

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1. Re:Unbreakable by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-20 02:50 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I must admit that I never managed to break Solaris. Come to think of it, I'm not really sure I managed to get it to install...
Re:The internal announcement by drkich · 2009-04-20 01:41 · Score: 3, Funny

From: Jonathan I. Schwartz
To: allsun@sun.com
Subject: Today's Sun/Oracle Announcement
So I can spam sun now?

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Re:What about MySQL? by MaggieL · 2009-04-20 01:52 · Score: 5, Funny

I have many co-workers that use Eclipse everyday, but that never got hold of point of the joke in the name.
The name isn't the only joke about Eclipse.

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Re:What about MySQL? by value_added · 2009-04-20 02:01 · Score: 5, Funny

In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures. Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. Try to compete with Apache. Try to build a new OpenOffice ...
So ... does that mean emacs or vi[m] won?
Re:Postgres is looking better than ever by Improv · 2009-04-20 02:01 · Score: 5, Funny

On the other hand, it makes selling tickets to the event easier.

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Re:What about MySQL? by binarylarry · 2009-04-20 02:13 · Score: 5, Funny

No, it foretells the coming of the one true operating system / text editor:
VIMACS!
All hail!

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Re:What about MySQL? by bondjamesbond · 2009-04-20 02:27 · Score: 1, Funny

...and maybe OOo will now stand for Oracle Oracle office.
You're playing a dangerous game! by shis-ka-bob · 2009-04-20 02:49 · Score: 3, Funny

If you run with this one, somebody is going to loose an eye.

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Re:What about MySQL? by Dun+Malg · 2009-04-20 03:27 · Score: 5, Funny

"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted
I think you mean occluded. "occulted" is when you wave a dead chicken at it at midnight.

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Re:What about MySQL? by amias · 2009-04-20 04:00 · Score: 5, Funny

actually thats how you get the perl support working

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Re:Wow. Just Wow. by _Sprocket_ · 2009-04-20 04:13 · Score: 4, Funny

It's IBM without... you know... the "IBM."
Re:What about MySQL? by MagikSlinger · 2009-04-20 04:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Remember: Larry hates Bill.

I think this is how most people predict or evaluate Oracle's actions: "How would this f--- Bill Gates?"
"Um, Mr. Ellison? Bill Gates isn't running Microsoft anymore--"
"SHUT UP! I know he's still out there..." (stares out his window menacingly towards Redmond)

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Re:What about MySQL? by h4rm0ny · 2009-04-20 05:07 · Score: 4, Funny

MySQL or Postgres is still going strong.
Nah. PostgreSQL has won. We just haven't managed to persuade the MySQL users that they've lost yet. ;)

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Re:This year is just beggining... by shutdown+-p+now · 2009-04-20 05:42 · Score: 2, Funny

You mean, the Microsoft Linux jokes weren't jokes?..
Re:What about MySQL? by Dragonslicer · 2009-04-20 06:53 · Score: 4, Funny

No, it foretells the coming of the one true operating system / text editor:
VIMACS!
All hail!
You mean emacs will finally get a usable text editor?
Re:What about MySQL? by Hucko · 2009-04-20 15:51 · Score: 2, Funny

But, but he made the Scorpion King in the 2000s...?

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