Finally, Oracle can start building its ambitious empire

2 days Ago, EU gives the permission to Oracle for its deal of acquiring Sun Microsystems. I guess Oracle may feel happy and upset at the same time: they are happy because the EU finally allows the acquisition; they are upset because both Oracle and Sun have lost quite a lot since they announce the deal. In one presentation by Larry Ellison, he mentioned that the delay of acquisition caused a loss of millions of dollars per month for both sides. So people can image how painful it will be to see a huge deduction of revenue at the end of each month. Very soon , when we install the latest JDK, it won't be marked as Sun Microsystems, instead, it will be Oracle.( I can't imagine that, but it will be true sooner or later....)

So now who is feeling painful? Perhaps IBM ,or HP? After the acquisition, Oracle will be a hardware provider and a software provider at the same time. And right now the bigger player who can do both is IBM. I still remember that one year ago there was a rumor that IBM would acquire Sun. And after several months it turned out to be Oracle who got the deal. Followed by that was a long period of debacle between Oracle and EU. Though the cause for this is not that outstanding for this huge acquisition, there may be some other factors blocking the process. (I am just saying, who knows.)

Actually I don't care whether Oracle would be another IBM or not. As a non-entity, the fight between giants is just a show for me. What I am interested is some strategy that Larry Ellison may deploy in the future. As he doesn't seem to be a Cloud Computing fans right now, and all the other big companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Sun(At least Sun is still a separate company right now), they have started their Cloud Computing service for a while. And there is no sign so far that they don't want to get their share of cookies. So what will Oracle do after it acquires Sun? In a video Larry Ellison joked the idea of Cloud Computing. Will he make this joke into practice? Will Oracle stop the cloud computing development in Sun after the acquisition? Who knows. We'll see it.

I am setting up another project right now, and busy with those server configurations and project management. Maybe I could write it down here as kind of experience sharing with everyone.