Why the Oracle/Sun deal is bad news for Microsoft and SQL Server. On thernMicrosoft Subnet the news that Oracle would buy Sun for $7.4 billion was a stunner - and one that will be especially hard to figure out for the Microsoft world. One of the first questions that arises is what will become of mySQL, owned by Sun? Oracle has a history of buying competitors and forcing customers of said competitors over to its higher-priced options. If Oracle deploys the "forced move" strategy, it could have Microsoft smiling, as this leaves the more affordable SQL Server as the most logical option for mySQL users that don't want to move to some sort of Oracle database. Oracle's purchase of Sun also gives it the hardware to quickly push into cloud computing in competition with Microsoft, IBM and others.
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