why won’t anyone think of the industry analysts? sun buys mysql and oracle buys bea…on the same day? don’t they care that i’m busy? –Steve
Pretty crazy, huh? MySQL and BEA are snatched up by Sun and Oracle.
It looks as if Steve and James will give you the meeting details later today, which is fantastic. I’ll just throw out some speculation and thinking out-loud to hold you off until then: a little bread-basket while you wait ;>
Sun and MySQL
In one day-long consulting session with Sun, I recall seeing a “database” discussion on the agenda and thinking, “Sun does databases?” As we discussed in #redmonk this morning, and as I found out quickly that day, they indeed did: being big fans in PostgreSQL and Derby/JavaDB. Obviously, being the owner of MySQL makes them much more of a database company, and I’d expect - hope - to see Sun be a hell of lot more prominent in the database world.
Hopefully, buying MySQL will also mean a cloud computing opportunity for Sun to host those big MySQL’s in the sky people mutter about frequently.
Oracle buying BEA is a whole ‘nuther bucket of fun. To come out of middle-ware left field, it should mean good news for OSGi as both BEA and Oracle have been using OSGi in their middle-ware. Obviously, in this part of todays news, there’s even more fun when it comes to the Java world, Oracle and BEA being two big weight-pullers in Java middle-ware.
The big question more broadly here is how Oracle will either: (a.) use BEA’s technologies to finish out Fusion, or use them at all, (b.) consolidate portal and workflow product lines, if at all. That is, there’s a lot of (from the outside) duplication between BEA’s and Oracle’s product lines; Oracle has shown that it doesn’t go around just knocking out old product lines (probably a good move, despite the easy put-down this brings from the architectural peanut gallery); so how’re they going to handle consolidating those product lines?
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