NEWS ANALYSIS: Oracle’s $7.4 billion Sun acquisition will put an end to one of the most successful high-tech companies in Silicon Valley history, and the inspiration for so many enterprise startups that followed in the 1990s and 2000s. But it’s a sad day most of all for the open-source community, which loses one of its strongest commercial software supporters.
- Oracle
is killing Sun Microsystems.
The two companies announced the $7.4 billion deal the morning of April 20.
For the rest of the tech industry, it’s a sad day. Dress in black and mourn.
One of Silicon Valley’s finest is gone. If the Valley
were a tree, Sun would be one of its major roots. Li…