sun acquisition

Scott Mattoon from Oracle will be presenting Enterprise Architecture for Drupal early tomorrow at DrupalCon.

Scott is a long time member of the Drupal community. He recently joined Oracle via the Sun acquisition - in case you're worried, he tells...

Not 403: "But it's sad to see how Oracle after Sun acquisition, is slowly shutting down this amazing open source project, marking it as "not strategic" and dismembering the few parts they think are worth for their own SSO product."

Datmation: "The saga of Oracle's $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which started back in April 2009, is near its end."

Oracle's agreement to acquire Sun will reshape the landscape of tools and platforms for Java and database developers, but it also means a change in emphasis -- or even the demise -- of some key tools, development platforms and databases.

Reports on Wednesday that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems drew mixed views as to what Big Blue would gain from absorbing the struggling supplier of servers, open source software and Java.