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No. Oracle bought Sun for control over Java, and its (ailing) Enterprise datacenter marketshare to cross sell into. Having done Sun I don't think there's anythi
by guiriduro 9y ago
No. Oracle bought Sun for control over Java, and its (ailing) Enterprise datacenter marketshare to cross sell into. Having done Sun I don't think there's anything to gain by acquiring HPE (but maybe there's a low enough price which is right.)
Re:MySQL was an inconvenience to Oracle in the Sun deal, not an acquisition target. PostgreSQL was/is a stronger OSS competitor to their DBMS tbh, due to its closer feature parity, especially PL/pgSQL - and no sign of them sponsoring (controlling) that project.