Oracle hints on Sun SParc Assets Part II

With US DoJ approving Oracle-Sun deal, Oracle is slowly revealing its plans for Sun H/W assets. Here is another teaser/advt that Oracle runs about Suns hardware assets. I have seen this on most prominent web sites. It looks Oracle is willing to keep the Sun's Hardware business with itself and is ready to invest more on developing the same.
There is another angle to these teasers. The recent decision by EU to investigate possible antitrust issues in the deal has delayed it. It might take till mid January to complete the investigation. Already IBM and HP are grabbsing Sun's customers utilizing the uncertainity of the deal. The antitrust scrutiny can be dealt by either selling out MySQL or promise future development of MySQL. (I really love the words used by the Eurpean commissioner in his statement "The commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world's leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world's leading open source database company" Oracle wants to thwart customers jumping ships and hence trying to clear the uncertainity by promising that it is still committed with Sun's Hardware.

Its not me alone but most of the experts still feel that Oracle might sell Sun's Hardware business to HP. And that makes real sense.

Oracle hints on Suns Sparc Assets

Here is a teaser that Oracle runs on its site. It might be a hint on what Oracle is planning with Suns Hardware assets.

Lets just wait till Oct 14 on the real intentions of Oracle.

VMWare acquires SpringSource

VMWare is acquiring SpringSource for around half a billion dollars.For the people who wonder what is a Virtualization/Datacenter has to do with a Java Enterprise application software company, you are not alone. I was too puzzled when I heard the news. Whatever the explanation CEO of VMWare gives or SpringSource's CEO gives it doesnt somehow add up. Yaa, these kind of acquisitions are not uncommon nowadays. Oracle's ongoing acquisition of Sun is one such example. Whereas Oracle is a Enterprise Software company, Sun is primarily a Hardware company. What on earth is Oracle going to do with Sun's RISC based assets...? Word is that Oracle has already decided to shelve Sun's ambitious ROCK processor project. Now will same sort of thing will happen with some of the assets of Spring Source. We will eventually see. For me, I would be happy someone buys redhat and keep a check on the self proclaimed guardian of Open source movement.

Back again

After a very long time I am back to business facts blogging. I will
try to be regular in writing new interesting business posts. Keep
watching this area.

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Cheers,
Balaje Sankar
http://balajesankar.wordpress.com

Deals2buy stats

Deals2buy.com which I (most indians) visit to see latest deals has been following cheap tactics of claiming to give away free laptops if you subscribe to their alert emails. I was wondering why they suddenly started decieving people of giving away stuff for free. Going thru the traffic details of this site gave me the correct cause. Their hits have been falling drastically and continously.The following I have pasted from Alexa.com. The same is available here

Reach for Deals2buy.com: 

Percent of global Internet users who visit this site 

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
0.023%	0.0191%	0.0197%	19.1%

Traffic Rank for Deals2buy.com: 

Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
4,148	5,275	5,085	642

Page Views per user for Deals2buy.com: 

The number of unique pages viewed per user per day for this site

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
2.5	2.45	2.55	9%

Its time to quit

This business blog speaks more about Sun than any other company though thats not its intention. Lets put aside the reasons behind that. Sun has posted record loss this quarter. Nobody has any clue that how is Sun going to make any money in the already troubled market. Jonathan with all his love for Open Source havent satisfied the investors who have seen their investments melt like snow in the last few months. Is it time for him to quit...?

Markets Collapse

Finally its here. Though I am writing the blog after a gap of around 7 months nothing has changed but it has gone from bad to worse. The markets all over the world has collapsed and they have done so repeatedly for the past few months. The FED and Central banks all over the world has been trying hard to infuse cash to avert this credit crisis. As analysts say, India is still under denial mode and might take a hard lesson soon that she too is not resistant to the global credit woes. Will keep posting on the developments.