Finally! Oracle Gets Approval for Sun Acquisition!
January 25, 2010 - 7:26pm — bexWell, that took long enough! The European Union finally approved the merger... so now it's official that Oracle owns Sun (and Java!). Oracle is having a press conference about their Sun strategy this Wednesday, January 27, at 9am Pacific Time. They covered a lot of this at Open World 2009... but now I guess it will be official.
They probably won't announce the inevitable layoffs at this talk... although some speculate that 50% of Sun's workforce is redundant after the merger. I'd expect them to talk big about the Exadata V2 hardware... maybe something about pre-packaged Oracle "appliances." It would be cool to have a database in a box, or something akin to the Google Search Appliance for their secure enterprise search.
I'd also expect some talk about virtualization... ever since the BEA acquisition, Oracle has owned a very interesting virtualization solution. I'm not talking about their Linux VM; I'm talking about their Java VM. Instead of making a virtual machine of operating systems running J2EE application servers, BEA had a solution that virtualized just the application server without an operating system. Leaner, meaner, fewer security holes, and much easier to maintain. Oracle has kept pretty quiet about this technology... I'd expect it to be touted a bit more.
What's your feeling? Does anybody out there think Oracle will make an earth-shaking announcement? Does anybody think their strategy will be significantly different than what they have strongly hinted at last year?
Not quite yet...
While the EU has approved the deal, Russia and China have not. I've twice been employed by companies that were acquired, and one of the acquisitions required the approval of the Romanian government. While China probably doesn't particularly care what Widenius thinks, China has taken an activist stance to merger approvals.
Chinese regulators have been flexing their anti-monopoly muscle in deals by global companies, blocking Coca-Cola Co's proposed purchase of China Huiyuan Juice last March and placing conditions on approval of InBev's acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, and Panasonic's buy of Sanyo Electric.
So unless China acts quickly, I don't think the January 27 talk will be "official" either.
perhaps...
Oracle cares more about Sun's hardware and ownership of Java than MySQL. If China and Russia balked at the deal because of MySQL, Oracle could easily spin off MySQL, or donate it to the Apache foundation, to keep the deal going.
Oracle UCM - Folio content ID for the selected file
Hi bex,
I need your help, I am very new to Oracle UCM. I need to get the Folio content ID of the selected file. How do I do this is there any service to get this or I need to write custom code. I seen there is an service called GET_SCHEMA_TABLES using this we can get the database tables from the CPDLINKS database table we can get the association details AM I GOING correct approach. Please help me to find the solution.
Thanks and regards,
karthikeyan
Re: Oracle UCM - Folio content ID for the selected file
Offhand I'd say you'll need to write custom code to parse the folio XML. I can't say more without doing lots of research. You should check the Oracle UCM forums to see if anybody has already done this before.
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