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Dataquest Insight: Would Oracle Buy the No. 2 Ranking in the Software Market With Sun Acquisition?
4 June 2009
 
Joanne M. Correia   Chad Eschinger   Colleen Graham   Alan Dayley   Matthew Cheung  

On 20 April 2009, Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun for approximately $7.4 billion. The deal will likely close by 3Q09, and it will edge Oracle closer to becoming the No. 2 vendor in the enterprise software market.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 Background and Context

    
 The Impact

    
 Key Sun Assets That Oracle Is Acquiring

    
 Java
    
 Solaris
    
 MySQL
    
 Storage
    
 Application Infrastructure and Middleware
    
 Cloud

    
 Conclusion

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Software Products — IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun
 

Table 2.  
 Total Software Revenue, 2008 — IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun (Billions of Dollars)
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Total Market Share for Application and Infrastructure Software (Without Other Infrastructure and Application Software), 2008
 



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