April 20, 2009

The day the IBM-Sun talks disintegrated after weeks of deliberation, I knew something was up in Oracle land.

The same day over dinner, I told my fiancee, Kelly, that Larry Ellison probably called Charles Phillips from his yacht off the coast of Japan and told him to buy Sun. To me, it just made total sense.

Why build DB appliances with HP when you can have Thumper? Why go crazy with cloud RnD when you can have Sun hardware engineers and their Blackbox container data centers?

Why bother with ’Oracle Linux” when you have Solaris, ZFS and DTrace?

Why adapt to Sun/JCP standardization efforts when your entire Fusion stack depends on it? Why not have the most threatening DB to Oracle - MySQL - in your grasp? Not that controlling InnoDB didn’t already achieve that :).

Excellent work by the Larry, Charles and Safra team again. What Oracle doesn’t have or hasn’t clearly identified in the public eye yet - is the person implementing the vision? Who is responsible for putting these pieces together, informing channel partners and system integrators on what technologies go where?

They have two BPM engines, two app servers, two databases, two OSes, Coherence, BerkeleyDB, two IDEs and now JSF2.0/ADF… I am sure there are people already working on this, but the over-arching vision is not clear currently. Communication is going to be everything in the next six months.

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