The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Tony Baer, Senior Analyst, Ovum , 04/20/2009
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Thank you Larry for finally putting us out of our misery, as Oracle has finally silenced the chattering classes (mea culpa) with a $9.50/share bid for Sun (almost smack dab in the middle between IBM’s original and revised lower bids).
In many ways this deal brings events full circle between Oracle and Sun. The obvious part is that the deal solidifies Oracle’s enterprise stack vs. IBM in that Oracle can now go fully mano a mano against IBM for the enterprise data center, database, platform and all. It also provides a welcome counterbalance to IBM for control over Java’s destiny. While the deal is likely to finally put NetBeans out of its misery, it means that there will be a competition over direction of the Java stack that is borne of realpolitik, not religion.
More importantly, it finally gives Solaris a meaning for existence as it returns to serving as Oracle’s reference platform. In a way, you could state that both companies were twins separated at birth, as both emerged as the de facto reference platforms for UNIX in the 80s; the deal was sealed with Sun’s purchase of some of the assets of Cray in the mid 90s that finally gave Sun an enterprise server on which Oracle could raise the ante on IBM. Aside from HP’s brief challenge with SAP in the mid 90s, Solaris has always been the biggest platform for Oracle.
But after the dot com bust and emergence of Linux, Solaris lost its relevance as open source provided an 80/20 alternative that was good enough for most dot coms. It left Sun with an identity crisis, debated much on these pages and elsewhere, as to its next act. Under Jonathan Schwartz’s watch, Sun tried becoming the enterprise counter pole to Red Hat – all the goodness of open source, MySQL too, but with the bulletproofing that Red Hat and SuSE were missing. As we noted a few weeks back, great idea, but not enough to support a $5 billion business.
Now Solaris becomes part of the Oracle enterprise stack – a marriage that makes sense as businesses investing in high end enterprise applications are going to expect umbrella deals. In other words, now Oracle has the complete deal to counter IBM. Oracle in the past has flirted with database appliances and certified implementations – now it doesn’t have to flirt anymore. More importantly, it provides a natural platform for Oracle to offer its own cloud.
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