> Ina Fried, CNET, > <http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62053383,00.htm> > reports that Ballmer was completely flat-foot surprised at Oracle buying > Sun after IBM turned their back on a deal. MS, Sun and Oracle (as well > as IBM) are long-term rivals. > > Does ignoring Sun show that Ballmer is too out of touch to lead M$, at > least to any good place? Thoughts? > > Thank you, > > Mark Snyder
Saw the final deal with Oracle and Sun in FT today, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3614fc18-2da7-11de-9eba-00144feabdc0.html. After seeing the possibilities of IBM or MS buying Sun, it's a great complementary match for Oracle and Sun. Ballmer is too stupid to be running any company, and there's no reason why Sun would want to be part of MS anyway, especially after how MS tried to rewrite Java without Sun's permission.
Whether or not Oracle decides to sell the hardware division to Cisco, this is a new integrated company that should do very well. I don't think that there's any conflict between Oracle's database and MySQL either. They're different classes of software. Java is the prize anyway, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/adfc7de0-2e0c-11de-9eba-00144feabdc0.html.
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