ORACLE BUYS SUN

1. What do you think is the effect of Oracle buying Sun?

The effect of this is that it would really have a big problem for its competitors like the Microsoft because the Sun company has a lot of projects that are in their hands including the applications for cellphones and othe things.
With this tag team for Oracle and Sun it’s a very big impact to the Microsoft company as it competes with its products and services, but what it worries all about is how or what would be the projects the Oracle and Sun has to offer for the society of internet and computer softwares and applications.
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Author: Neil McAllister
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/what-if-oracle-bought-sun-microsystems-859

So much for that. According to reports, Sun Microsystems has rejected IBM's buyout offer, apparently preferring to stick to the dogma that says Sun is still a vibrant, thriving company with a bright, independent future. At this juncture, I'd like to take a moment to offer the following public service announcement to any Sun employees in the audience: That's not Kool-Aid you're drinking.

More to the point, with IBM out of the picture, we're left with the uncomfortable prospect that some other suitor might step in to fill the vacuum. My pal Paul Venezia thinks Cisco might be interested in acquiring Sun, and one of the kookier rumors has Dell as a possibility.
Neither scenario seems likely. Both assume that Sun's server business is its most attractive asset, which I question. If you added all of Sun's server revenue to Dell's, it still wouldn't equal what Hewlett-Packard earns from server sales. And if Sun were to simply disappear, Dell would surely gain at least some of Sun's share of the server market anyway -- so what would be the point of a buyout? What's more, I doubt that either Cisco or Dell would know what to do with Sun's software business.
But Oracle would. In fact, Oracle might stand to gain even more from Sun's software assets than IBM would -- so much so that I rank Oracle as the top (perhaps the only) potential buyer left for Sun. The shame of it is that if such a deal were to go through, I suspect that in the long run, Oracle's gain would be our loss.

2. What do you think would Bill Gates do about this?

With this two companies join together, there would be a chance that Bill Gates would have a hard time thinking for any solutions in order to maintain the stability of his company which is the Microsoft corporation. Due to this problem occurs already, Bill Gates might have here employees gather together and have to plan for a solution about the problem and counters for the problem. This, the tag team of Sun and Oracle would be a big headache for The Microsoft’s multi-billionaire Bill Gates.
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by: Rea Maor
http://www.askreamaor.com/linux-and-unix/oracle-and-sun-finally-somebody-might-pull-ahead-of-bill-gates/

It’s amazing that Oracle Corporation doesn’t get more buzz in the blogosphere. Everybody knows about Microsoft and a few have heard of Apple and Mac OS, but you’re still hard-pressed to find somebody outside of the IT profession who’s heard of Linux, BSD, or Solaris. Especially in the English-speaking world.

Pay attention to this name; he’s the fourth-richest human being on the planet. The Forbes wealth rank for 2009 runs Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helú, and then there’s Lawrence Ellison. There used to be a bunch of other names between them, but they’ve gotten weeded out this year thanks to the global real estate and banking crash. Sorry boys, play-money wealth doesn’t last.
Larry Ellison is the CEO of Oracle Corporation, and amongst Oracle’s various holdings pretty much runs the back end of every major business’ server room. And this company releases a Linux distribution called “Oracle Enterprise Linux“. Linux, being a software base popularized by people like this guy.

3. To you as a student using Java, how will this later affect your learning on the language?

Maybe it would affect the learning of the students because sun and oracle are combining and maybe there are some additional features and the two combines companies would offer for improvements of their applications and softwares for the friendlier use of the public of the society.