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We are pleased to
announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems
and Sun is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. With this news, we
want to reiterate our commitment to deliver complete, open and
integrated systems that help our customers improve the performance,
reliability and security of their IT infrastructure. We would also like
to thank the many customers that have supported us throughout the
acquisition process.
There is no doubt
that this combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of
servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java,
and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of database, middleware,
and business and industry applications, we plan to engineer and deliver
open and integrated systems - from applications to disk - where all the
pieces fit and work together out of the box.
Performance levels
will be unmatched. Oracle’s software already runs faster on Sun
SPARC/Solaris than on any other server or operating system. With Sun as
a part of Oracle, each layer of the stack will be engineered to further
improve performance, reliability and manageability so that IT will be
more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will
benefit as their system performance goes up and their system
integration and management costs go down.
In addition, our
open standards-based technology will give customers choice. Customers
can purchase our fully integrated systems, or easily integrate our
best-of-breed technologies with their existing environments. Our open
technology also enables customers to take full advantage of third party
innovations. Oracle also plans to extend its partner specialization
program to include Sun technologies to better enable partners to
deliver differentiated and value-added solutions to customers.
As always, our
primary goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We are dedicated to
delivering without interruption the quality of support and service that
you have come to expect from Oracle and Sun, and more. Oracle plans to
enhance Sun customer support by improving support access, offering
better interoperability support between Oracle and Sun products and
delivering services in more local languages. Support procedures for
your existing Sun and Oracle products are unchanged, so for now you
should continue to use the same channels you’ve been using. Customers
can continue to purchase products from Sun in the same way they did
prior to the acquisition. We will communicate any changes to this
through regular channels.
We are very excited
about this combination and look forward to delivering to you increased
innovation through accelerated investment in Sun’s hardware and
software technologies such as SPARC, Solaris, Java, and MySQL. If you
weren’t able to join the live event on January 27 where we, along with
Larry Ellison and other executives from Oracle and Sun outlined how this
powerful combination will transform the IT industry, you are welcome to
view the replay that can be accessed at oracle.com/sun.
Sincerely,
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Charles Phillips
President
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Safra Catz
President
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This document is for
informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into a contract
or agreement.
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