I'm glad to hear Sun finally found a suitor, but it would been nice if IBM bought them. In any case, this will test Oracle's commitment to open source and I certainly do hope MySQL is here to stay because it's such a great product. Even if Oracle was to close the code on MySQL and eventually dismantle it in favor of Oracle DB, numerous releases have already forked out of old MySQL code in response to Sun's modification to the code. It would be nice if there was some kind of code merger because I know Oracle DB has a lot to offer.

Staroffice will also belong to Oracle now. Oracle previously did not have a major office suite and can now guide openoffice's development to combat MS Office and Lotus. I don't think Oracle cares all too much about Java. It'll be there, but won't be a weapon. The major weapon here I see is MySQL if it can be cultivated properly. Perhaps creating some kind of relationship been MySQL and Oracle DB that resembles Openoffice and Staroffice.

Today is an important day. It has restructured the IT landscape making Microsoft evermore susceptible to failure, which is what I want to see :)