Obviously I am taking the same chillax approach to updating my blog (sorry everyone) but I had a couple of minutes to spare this morning and while I eat my cereal and stare out the window at snow lightly falling wondering if my Mini Cooper with no snow tires will get into work without incident I thought I would share my thoughts.
As we have seen from prior acquisitions, Oracle does a lot of posturing at the beginning of a takeover (especially if it is a hostile takeover) then mostly settles down and behaves. Those of us who were PeopleSoft customers during the nasty and brutal battle Oracle waged to acquire PeopleSoft remember the public vows by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison to shut down PeopleSoft and discontinue its products.
Here we are a couple of years and many acquisitions later and Oracle has mostly kept the acquired products up and running. Has Oracle innovated with the PeopleSoft product line? Not so much especially with HCM but they continue to fix bugs, provide regulatory updates and deliver incremental functionality.
I say, let’s wait a bit and see exactly what Oracle has to say about the future of Sun. Chillax everyone.