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AFAICT, Oracle bought Sun to get at their (really x86_64) hardware business, to compete with HP/IBM. One quick ref that kinda shows this angle: https://www.quo

AFAICT, Oracle bought Sun to get at their (really x86_64) hardware business, to compete with HP/IBM. One quick ref that kinda shows this angle: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Oracle-buy-Sun https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Oracle-buy-Sun The rest of Sun was just extra. So Oracle's seeing if they can use them. If they find that they can't they'll just dump them. As they're doing now.

tytso 10y ago
The challenge I have with believing that theory is they paid an _awfully_ large sum for just the hardware business.
tossedaway334 10y ago
Sun's hardware business is mostly irrelivant, and both IBM and HP are in the process of switching away from providing hardware (Especially IBM). SPARC was already mostly dead by the time that Oracle bought Sun. The prize Oracle was after is Java, and they have already begun the long process of squeezing large enterprises with Java "commerical" features flags.
pjc50 10y ago
I thought they bought Sun for Java, especially the (then-ongoing) lawsuit against Microsoft?
akoster 10y ago
Perhaps MySQL too as it would be one more major database product under their control.