Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1919
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:15 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Friday 29 January 2010
 Number  1919
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Subjects for today
 
1   [Fwd: Oracle Finalizes Acquisition of Sun] : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>

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Date:  Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:38:29 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   [Fwd: Oracle Finalizes Acquisition of Sun]

I wonder what this will mean for all of the open source projects - Open 
Office, Virtual Box, Java etc. ??

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Oracle Finalizes Acquisition of Sun
Date: 	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:18:29 -0600
From: 	Charles Phillips - President & Safra Catz - 
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We are pleased to announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of 
Sun Microsystems and Sun is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. 
With this news, we want to reiterate our commitment to deliver complete, 
open and integrated systems that help our customers improve the 
performance, reliability and security of their IT infrastructure. We 
would also like to thank the many customers that have supported us 
throughout the acquisition process.

There is no doubt that this combination transforms the IT industry. With 
the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris 
operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of 
database, middleware, and business and industry applications, we plan to 
engineer and deliver open and integrated systems - from applications to 
disk - where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.

Performance levels will be unmatched. Oracle’s software already runs 
faster on Sun SPARC/Solaris than on any other server or operating 
system. With Sun as a part of Oracle, each layer of the stack will be 
engineered to further improve performance, reliability and manageability 
so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. 
Customers will benefit as their system performance goes up and their 
system integration and management costs go down.

In addition, our open standards-based technology will give customers 
choice. Customers can purchase our fully integrated systems, or easily 
integrate our best-of-breed technologies with their existing 
environments. Our open technology also enables customers to take full 
advantage of third party innovations. Oracle also plans to extend its 
partner specialization program to include Sun technologies to better 
enable partners to deliver differentiated and value-added solutions to 
customers.

As always, our primary goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We are 
dedicated to delivering without interruption the quality of support and 
service that you have come to expect from Oracle and Sun, and more. 
Oracle plans to enhance Sun customer support by improving support 
access, offering better interoperability support between Oracle and Sun 
products and delivering services in more local languages. Support 
procedures for your existing Sun and Oracle products are unchanged, so 
for now you should continue to use the same channels you’ve been using. 
Customers can continue to purchase products from Sun in the same way 
they did prior to the acquisition. We will communicate any changes to 
this through regular channels.

We are very excited about this combination and look forward to 
delivering to you increased innovation through accelerated investment in 
Sun’s hardware and software technologies such as SPARC, Solaris, Java, 
and MySQL. If you weren’t able to join the live event on January 27 
where we, along with Larry Ellison and other executives from Oracle and 
Sun outlined how this powerful combination will transform the IT 
industry, you are welcome to view the replay that can be accessed at 
oracle dot com/sun 
<http://www.oracle dot com/us/sun/index.htm?msgid=8480155&eid=4675810064&lid=1>.

Sincerely,

Charles Phillips
President

Safra Catz
President

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