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End of an Era

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It's a sad sad day today, as yesterday Sun Microsystems ceased to exist as a separate legal entity, and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle according to the Oracle press announcement.

As a Sun employee since 1998 it's such a shame to see such an innovative company being swallowed up, but as someone once said:

Sun was brilliant at innovating, just not so good at selling.
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I'm hoping that Oracle's commitment in investing in Sun R&D continues over the long term, and then we may see Sun innovations becoming noticed worldwide and may it's legacy continue...

Looking at how quickly the integration of Sun into the Oracle family is taking pace, even today the former sun.com home page now redirects to oracle.com, and the old Sun product pages have started taking on an Oracle look and feel (logos, colours, etc).

I'm also beginning to see changes to product names, it looks like Oracle will be keeping the Sun brand name on it's hardware, but software will become known as "Oracle <Product Name>", for example Solaris™ is now "Oracle Solaris".

With hesitence I'm looking forward to the integration and what lies ahead. However, gone are the days of the Dot.Com!

Good-bye Sun, Hello Oracle