Leggo da Vittorio Pasteris la notiziona di oggi.
Il comunicato ufficiale la dice già lunga sulla strategia in atto:
“The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.”
E la rete sta esplodendo di commenti:
That pitch sort of sounds like Apple’s approach on the consumer side. Apple’s strategy is to integrate hardware and software to make things easy. Oracle with Sun appears to be the Apple of the enterprise. Indeed, Oracle President Charles Phillips noted that the company is looking to offer everything from apps to the disk.
via Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
To get the bigger picture here you have to view it in the context of what’s going on within the system vendor landscape more broadly. At the risk of overstating things, the system vendor landscape is being reconstituted into big, highly integrated companies that can do it all.
This is how essentially all computer companies used to be, but that way of business gave way to the horizontal industry structure epitomized by the likes of Microsoft and Intel.
via Oracle buys Sun: The big picture | The Pervasive Datacenter – CNET News