Oracle Sun Deal and Microsoft,IBM

There will be some short and long term effects of the blockbuster $7.4 billion deal between Oracle and Sun MicroSystems on the whole IT industry and is set to affect business of top companies around the globe.As said by the CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison they have mainly acquired Sun for OpenSolaris Operating system and Java(not much concerned for MySQL).The effects of this deal on Microsoft may be either leave them smiling or the competition will get even tougher.Oracle Sun deal if happened may leave Microsoft SqlServer in a very difficult place if Oracle allowed OpenSource MySQL to remain OpenSource(after bearing some losses) and allowed MySQL to upgrade to its high end products.This will lead them to earn through MySQL .

Let's take a look what the Oracle president Oracle President Charles Phillips has said about the deal :-
"Oracle plans to engineer and deliver an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. ... Oracle's ownership of two key Sun software assets, Java and Solaris, is expected to provide our customers with significant benefit. Java is one of the computer industry's best known brands and most widely deployed technologies. Oracle Fusion Middleware is built on top of Sun's Java language and software. Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community. The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris. Oracle is as committed as ever to Linux and other open platforms, and will continue to support and enhance our strong industry partnerships."

From his speech it become clear that Oracle has much to do with Java and Solaris Operating System.Remember he did not mentioned anything about MySQL he said Oracle can optimize the Oracle database after acquisition of Sun MicroSystem.What it means I don't want to guess but still there is something inside.If Oracle curtails the OpenSource MySQL from the market then Microsoft will definitely get a sigh of relief and surely it will raise their market in Web World,because MySQL is not proprietary and is free, secondly it provides high end solutions for small websites.The Hardware market of Microsoft is very very small so this deal will never going to harm them but for IBM this is a danger alarm.See the other side that Oracle and Google are friends from a long time this deal will even strengthen their relationship,which means the foe of Microsoft, Google will enjoy on this deal .

After Finishing the deal Oracle will be able to supply compete System Solutions under one roof like from chips, servers, storage, desktops, thin clients, and more including Operating Systems,programming language and whats more an Office Suite OpenOffice,Previously which was only offered by IBM .It will surely hurt the business of IBM .Some guys say that IBM must buy SAP in order to remain competent with Oracle/Sun but the process is not too easy it needs days of analysis and speculations ,IBM will be doing their homework for improving their markets and be on top of their business.Their are news coming out that Oracle is not much interested in the Hardware business of Sun and may sell it to Fujitsu.The market share of Sun in Servers is mere 4% and also it builds servers on Sparc technology which are called outdated by many.Since Oracle does not make Sparc technology servers so this decision is right,and why not make some money from it to strengthen their server business.Story not ends here many Hardware giants like hp,Dell also looking forward for this deal and are busy finding out the consequences of Oracle Sun deal on their business.