Questions:
1. What do you think is the effect of Oracle buying Sun?
-According to Mr. James Sugrue. He said that "The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system - applications to disk - where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up." and "This is a fantastic day for Sun's customers, developers, partners and employees across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace," said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, "From the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun's SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we'll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace." And I think that Oracle has the resources to take Java to the next level, but we can probably expect Java's emphasis to be even more focused on enterprise computing as a result of this acquisition. One thing is certain, Oracle definitely knows how to make money from middleware - a challenge which Sun has struggled with. ( http://java.dzone.com/news/oracle-buys-sun )
Oracle doesn't care about hardware. They do care about margin dollars – and control. Thus, as they control RedHat from a sales and support (revenue) stream – without that costly development burden – they could do the same thing here. The HP data warehousing system is another good example – HP gets preferred treatment but only 25% of the deal. Oracle gets the rest of the dough and controls the hooks to the system. Oracle doesn't gain any new customers on the systems side, they already have them all. ( http://esgblogs.typepad.com/steves_it_rants/2009/04/oracle-and-sun-expanded-thoughts.html )
Oracle doesn't care about hardware. They do care about margin dollars – and control. Thus, as they control RedHat from a sales and support (revenue) stream – without that costly development burden – they could do the same thing here. The HP data warehousing system is another good example – HP gets preferred treatment but only 25% of the deal. Oracle gets the rest of the dough and controls the hooks to the system. Oracle doesn't gain any new customers on the systems side, they already have them all. ( http://esgblogs.typepad.com/steves_it_rants/2009/04/oracle-and-sun-expanded-thoughts.html )
2. What do you think would Bill Gates do about this?
- Now we all know that Bill Gates have a new rival in the business world. I think he should create more and new softwares for the customer. Software that will help the customers in their major problems.
- Now we all know that Bill Gates have a new rival in the business world. I think he should create more and new softwares for the customer. Software that will help the customers in their major problems.
3. To you as a student using Java, how will this later affect your learning on the language?
- As a student for me java is free to use. The fact that there are so many Java resources accessible to students is both a benefit and a hindrance. Java source code is freely available at many Internet sites, which can assist the students in learning about Java, but it also produces a strong temptation to plagarize. There is also no guarantee that the source code they examine contains good programming practices! Another set of resources is the Java newsgroups, which can assist students in trying to learn Java. Far too often on these kinds of newsgroups, though, a student posts a message asking how to do his or her homework. The best policy in both of these cases is to make it clearly known, in advance, how each resource can and cannot be used.
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