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Story: Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4bn

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This is bad news for Sun customers

Any Sun hardware customer may now have further doubts about being a Sun customer as Oracle is not interested in hardware unless it is prepared to upset it relationship's with IBM, DELL, HP etc.

Oracle will probably try and sell SPARC to Fujitsu and drop x86 products all together.

What happens to open source products such as Java/JavaFX, Open Solaris, Open Office, Netbeans etc., is anybody's guess.

Hopefully Java/JavaFX will be allowed to become an independent body like IBM did with Eclispe, only time will tell.

Solaris/Open Solaris is a great product and I hope that it does not disappear into the Sunset!

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