And the press release cites ‘disk’ (hardware), Java and Solaris as the main drivers for the deal.
Which, for those of us in IDM and security space start to wonder – what about IDM? Well, as others have already pointed out, IDM is an afterthought. Which ought to make for an interesting year with the 2 orgs merging. In the one corner, you have an aggressive, sales- and revenue-oriented company. In the other corner, you have a techie haven that comes up with cool stuff, but is awful at actually running a business.
And what a mess this whole thing will cause. Its safe to say that Sun had the superior software in the IDM space, though Gartner (who just take surveys & watch product demos but don’t actually install anything) and a few others will disagree. But Oracle is sure to try and extend the reach of OID, OVD and all the other O* products, probably at the expense of Sun installation. There is very little need for 2 Directories, 2 Meta-Directories, 2 App Servers, and 2 of everything else.
It will be interesting to see what shakes out in the end.
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