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The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday September 05 2017, @08:21PM
The acquisition spree that Sun itself went on [wikipedia.org] was probably the seeds of its own demise.
All the stuff they gobbled up was not necessary, never went anywhere, and brought no revenue. But a few attracted attention of Oracle: MySQL. An unnecessary shot across Oracle's bow.
There were a cluster of acquisitions that made it look like Sun was going to make a serious run at Virtual computing, but I doubt Oracle was all that worried about that. Vmware or Intel might have snapped up that segment if the first IB Bubble hadn't intervened.
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