Solaris has a future
Oracle has
announced that it will grow Sun's hardware business after the pending
acquisition closes and focus the server and storage businesses on the two
companies' common enterprise customers.
Many analysts wondered if Oracle
would kill off Sun's hardware business which it really didn't need had had
little expertise in running. According to a report to the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Oracle wants to develop software-optimised hardware that
integrates all of the enterprise components: hardware, database, middleware and
applications.
Oracle said that its Oracle Fusion Middleware is built on top
of Sun's Java language and that continued investment will be made in the
software. Oracle added its database's uses the Sun Solaris operating system
and that after the acquisition, Oracle can "optimise" its database for some of
the better bits of Solaris.
It also does not plan to gut Sun's payroll and
claims that Sun employees "will be integral" in the execution of its plans to
grow the enterprise systems business.