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What the heck is going on at former Sun Microsystems?

Mergers and Acquisitions became part of the business model of every mid size to global enterprise: If you're grown big enough, you'll have to either acquire and merge, or you will get acquired and merged. Sun Microsystems for some time tried to acquire and merge to survive this business hell, but some day the man came around in form of Lawrence Joseph Ellison, number 6 on the Forbes list of the riches people on earth. That was the day when that started, what business analysts simply describe as "friction": People quite, people get fired, people get hired, in a temporarily increased level. This is quite normal with every merger and acquisition, and shouldn't be noteworthy at all. But in the particular case of former Sun Microsystems, the situation seems to be a bit different. For those who cannot remember, Sun Microsystems was the company that invented Java (a language called dead by some people, but still actually is actively developed and used by most programmers on earth, so is everything but death). It currently is in the state of being "a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation". Well, if that would be true, I wonder what the problem is then: A subsidiary typically is an asset that stays untouched, keeping its structures, people, assets, and philosophy. Shouldn't everybody be happy that Larry saved all their jobs and the further ...


Date: May, 01 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2010/05/01/what-heck-going-former-sun-microsystems


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