Sun to shine at Oracle

Steve Murphy, Frontline CEO, talks about the customer benefits of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

One of the biggest IT acquisitions in history has just occurred. What does it mean for Frontline customers who rely upon Oracle and Sun technologies?

“The main message is that this acquisition is a great move, and customers can be assured that their IT investments are secure,“ said Steve Murphy, Frontline CEO.

“It really is a change for the better. Larry Ellison has made it clear that Oracle will invest heavily in Sun technologies; and he will stick by his word, continuing the hard work that Sun has already done in developing industry-leading technologies like SPARC, Solaris, MySQL and Java.“

“Any Sun technologies that form a critical component of your IT infrastructure will not go away – in fact, they’re going to get even better.“

Superior performance across the suite

Together, Oracle and Sun will deliver simplicity, speed and savings.

A prime example is the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 Solution with Oracle – which reduces the number of servers in use by up to 83%; slashes real estate, power and storage costs; and is up to 75% faster to deploy.

How? By bringing together highly scalable servers, next-generation storage, and networking technologies with best-of-breed middleware and database software and services from Sun and Oracle.

It’s a clear demonstration of how well the Oracle database performs with Sun servers, the Solaris OS and StorageTek systems.

Learn more about Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 Solution with Oracle

With Sun technologies behind it, Oracle can now:

Frontline is your ideal partner to manage the change

Frontline is an Oracle Partner and has been Sun Reseller of the Year seven times running. We are in an expert position to help you manage any changes resulting from the acquisition.

Our consultants are fully abreast of the acquisition and are here to answer any questions you may have about how it may affect your business.

Who’s saying what about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun?

What IT executives are saying

“With Oracle’s purchase of Sun, we feel more secure about the long-term viability of the systems we rely on and we are now looking forward to seeing how Oracle will integrate both hardware and operating system to ensure greater end user reliability and backend scalability.“ Wanyonyi J Kendrick, Chief Information Officer, JEA

“By acquiring Sun, Oracle will significantly change the IT landscape. The combined companies will be able to offer customers complete end-to-end solutions. Oracle will be the only company that can offer enterprise class hardware, middleware and packaged applications. I believe the merging of the complementary product portfolios will be good for customers.“ Gregory Morrison, Vice President and CIO, Cox Enterprise, Inc.

What Larry Ellison is saying in the press

“Oracle has a good track record of retaining the engineering talent from acquired companies; Sun will be no different. “ Reuters, 7 May 2009

“We’re in it to win it. IBM, we’re looking forward to competing with you in the hardware business.“ Oracle advertisement

“We are keeping everything. We’re keeping tape, storage, X86 technology and SPARC technology… we’re going to increase investment in it. We have a deep interest in the systems business. We think, by combining our software with hardware, we can deliver systems that will be the backbone of most enterprises.“ ComputerWorld video transcript

Insights from Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, 12 Oct 2009

Larry Ellison: “It’s enormously exciting that we can take this great company, Sun, and combine it with another great company, Oracle; and then merge these technologies and do things neither company would be able to do by themselves. That’s our goal: to tackle problems even bigger, to integrate hardware and software and deliver revolutionary systems.”

Scott McNealy: “Innovation is something at the core of our business. Technology has the shelf life of a banana – you have to keep inventing and breaking through with new stuff. Putting Oracles R&D budget with ours creates one of the biggest R&D budgets of all time. As we head into a new chapter for Sun’s technologies and employees, will this innovation continue? Oracle is going to spend more money than Sun does now. That’s a good sign.”

Paul Muller: Read a Q&A with Paul Muller, Senior Director, Alliances and Channels at Oracle, about the power of partnerships and how customers are set to benefit from Oracle’s commitment to its partners.

Got a question? If you want to know how the acquisition may affect your business, call Frontline today on 1300 362 610.