Does Oracle's Sun Deal Mean Dark Clouds for Big Blue?

Does Oracle's Sun Deal Mean Dark Clouds for Big Blue?

If it goes through without a hitch, Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, announced Monday, could fill significant gaps in the database vendor's offerings. In addition to getting technologies in hot areas such as virtualization and cloud computing, Oracle will get access to patents that could prove to be cash cows. Sun's MySQL open source database and its strong services and support organizations will also help lengthen Oracle's reach. Taken together, Sun's technologies and capabilities could make Oracle even more of a threat to IBM. [More...]