Oracle-Sun anniversary One Sun swallow doesn’t make a hardware summer, and while it certainly hasn’t for Oracle, it is far from being in a hardware winter for the firm.

Oracle’s gulp of Sun Microsystems on 27 January 2010 – five years ago today – has resulted in a generally flagging Sun hardware product business and the growing Engineered System product set.

Oracle bought Sun so as to build integrated stack systems, its engineered product line, and improve on what it saw as the then mainstream best-of-breed component-based stack of application-through-to-server-hardware components. It needed control of its own processor, server hardware and operating system added to its middleware applications to do this.

This has been arguably largely successful – although Solaris’ role as an open-source OS alongside Linux has faltered and Linux is used inside Oracle’s engineered systems.

 

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