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Hopefully they'll throw away less than IBM would have. But the culture clash may be "interesting" to watch.

This may not be a good thing for open source, unless Oracle want to do things a bit differently. Or treat Sun as an independent unit.



I suspect that there has been an ongoing culture clash within Oracle. Perhaps refugees from within Oracle will gravitate towards Sun's camp?


You make it sound like there's going to be war within Oracle!


Have you ever been in a company during a merger? (I'm on #3 now.) There's always the potential for that. Internal power fights are common in times like that.




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