Oracle Sun Acquisition

Are you a Sun customer?
How do you see Sun's transition from being a independent company to an Oracle company? Has it been smooth? Things getting better or worse?

This has gone reasonably well, although we have not seen much coordination between Oracle and Sun sales people.

I think some of the Sun distributors did not enjoy the whole experience but we feel that Oracle is good for Sun

Oracle is a more localized company, most people including senior management are from the region, they understand the region better than Sun which preferred to employ wessterners .. I know the acquisition will make Sun a better company.

Also I can already see some interesting research and development integration work, Exadata is one example.

I just hope Oracle does not kill MySQL!

I see Sun running business as usual, they are active and competitive. The dust has settled and the initial confusion is over.
I would like to see Sun remain as a major player and not take a step back to leave HP and IBM only in the field.

Oracle knows how to integrate its acquisitions, one possible exception being PeopleSoft. But look at Siebel, BEA, Hyperion and now Sun. They seem to know how to do that better than the rest of the pack.

Their earnings have been growing steadily which supports the argument that their investments in acquisitions is paying off or at least not holding the company back.

Take a look st their recent earnings announced just yesterday.

Oracle/Sun acquisition seems to be working just fine. Just like several other Oracle acquisitions. Sun and its dealers are active again and if anything there is an air of confidence about Sun.

The question is how far Oracle is going to go with its vertical integration and will we ever feel forced to buy the full stack from Oracle?