Sun and Oracle - the new stack for the customer

Big news on April 20 of 2009!

As a Sun employee, I am really sad to hear the news of "Oracle buys Sun". But the new stack that is only possible thru the acquisition will provide unprecedented "enterprise and open" stack for enterprise applications - applications down to OS, servers and storage.

I hope it provides new value and new economics for the customers. Actually that might be the only scenario where the technical pieces from both parties are fit together to build a complete enterprise stack - an eye opener for the customers. Or it could be serviced or provided in the form of cloud computing or cloud service. Just my very personal guess. If there is anything that could be called an enterprise-class cloud platform, who else could provide it other than "Sun+Oracle" combo?

Here's the high level sketch of the stack. Let's how it actually pans out over the course of time.

One thing for sure is Sun+Oracle might be the least painful or least destructive combination from the evolutional angle of amazing suites of Sun technologies if Sun is to be combined with other IT titans in order to provide better value for the shareholders in the longer run.

April 20, 2009 will be remembered as the end of old IT paradigm and the start of new IT paradigm. Let's look back at this in a couple of years how the vision becomes a reality for the customers.

IT evolves for simplicity! (IT diverges for features and IT converges for simplicity!) - It's a simple MJ's Law which is the summary of my own observation and contribution to the IT over the last 25 years.

Posted at 08:29오후 4월 21, 2009 by myungjong in Personal  |