Yeah, this. Larry bought SUN to complete his vertically-integrated stack: "You want Enterprisey Business App X? We sell you the whole server! No more worrying a

Yeah, this. Larry bought SUN to complete his vertically-integrated stack: "You want Enterprisey Business App X? We sell you the whole server! No more worrying about hardware requirements, just roll this box in your datacentre and configure away; we guarantee it will work great." That, and ensuring their beloved Java stack (on which they had bet the farm) would survive. Everything else (MySQL, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, etc etc) was just bonus. The acquisition made a lot of sense. I was a lowly minion in Oracle when talks between SUN and IBM fell apart, and I told everyone I met "it would be great if we bought them"... After the acquisition, I expected MySQL to die a horrible death and actually it kinda survived (although barely), which I thought was somewhat magnanimous. I was hoping they would just offload some of the stuff that simply didn't make sense (Oracle selling word-processors and chat clients, really...?), but sadly some busybody repackaged them into embarrassing products. And for years they went "business as usual" for Java, actually re-igniting development in a suspiciously proactive manner, which was great... until the day the license changed.