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Audience Learns Where Oracle Will Focus Its Attention

Writing in eWeek Europe about the audience reaction to the presentation made by Oracle executives to 500 Sun customers and partners in London, Peter Judge assessed the response positively, saying, “The most surprising thing about the event was the complacency. Many of the delegates suggested that this merger, billed as one of the most cataclysmic ever (in a good way or a bad way), might simply lead to business as usual, with the products and support coming from the usual partners and executives, and the roadmap continuing.”

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Oracle Exec Says This Benefits Both Customers and Partners

Oracle plans to continue Sun’s roadmap practically unchanged, but it will move towards a direct channel model, said Nicky Sheridan, country manager at Oracle South Africa (SA), who believes this will improve service to customers and take away part of the “less value-added perspective of the business” from channel partners.

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MySQL Co-founder and Others Believe So

An assessment of the Oracle-Sun acquisition in terms of the future for the open source database MySQL is presented by Steve Evans of CBR in the article “What now for MySQL?” He reviews the hard fight Oracle eventually won to become owner of MySQL, and offers why the EU’s decision should assuage some of the worries of the open source community.

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Sun’s First Month Expected to Contribute About $636 Million

Oracle’s third quarter fiscal year 2010 results will be released on Thursday, March 25th, after the close of the market. Oracle plans on hosting a conference call and live web broadcast at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the financial results. The live web broadcast will be available from the Oracle Investor Relations Web site.

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Sun’s OpenOffice.org, Solaris 10 Considered Significant

A special eWEEK report names the products, applications, and technologies of the last decade that have changed the way people work, play, and live. Limiting the list to 25 of the most significant technologies and products, eWeek found OpenOffice.org and the Solaris 10 Operating System to be two important solutions making a mark in the last 10 years.

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Forbes Take on Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun

For a management consultant’s view of the prospects for the new Oracle/Sun entity, readers may wish to have a look at “More Than the Sum of Its Parts” by Reshmi Paul on Forbes.com. The author analyzes the Oracle-Sun acquisition from the perspective of both parties and offers suggestions designed to facilitate a smooth, fruitful integration.

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Another Sign of Industry Consolidation, New Opportunities for Solution Providers

Oracle-Sun and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) will end the long-term reseller agreement HDS originally had with Sun on March 31. Announced by HDS via an email to its solution provider partners on March 2, the company wrote “With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Hitachi Data Systems and Oracle agree that the time is right to evolve this relationship into one reflecting the priorities of the new company.”

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Save up to $700 for Full Conference Benefits

Get $700 off Oracle OpenWorld 2010’s full conference registration price by securing a spot before March 19. The conference is scheduled for Sept. 19-23, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. More than 1,800 sessions will be held along with 400 partner exhibits and hundreds of demos.

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Ellison Reaffirms His Belief in Sun’s Rapid Profitability

After accepting keys to the city of San Francisco in tribute to him and his racing team BMW Oracle for winning the 33rd America’s cup match this February, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he expects Sun’s formerly unprofitable operations to become profitable “right away” as part of Oracle. Following the Feb. 20th celebration, Ellison basically reiterated what he said during the Jan. 27 Oracle + Sun Strategy teleconference: “And how soon will [Sun’s profitability] occur? How long do investors have to wait? Not at all; not at all. We’ll be profitable this - in February. We’ll be profitable in March. We’ll be profitable in April - and when I say ‘we’: the Sun business. We’ll be profitable in May.”

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Streamlined Product Delivery, Long-deserved Emphasis on Sun Ray, Among Other Changes

It’s safe to say that only Larry Ellison and a few of his top level Oracle executives really know “what’s next for customers at Sun,” but there is plenty of room for intelligent speculation on this score, and that is what Paul Murphy provides in his brief blog post on that topic. By and large, what Murphy sees will be welcomed by Sun customers.

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