According to my friend at Oracle, this article is a bit misleading...
You've got to understand what Oracle does when it acquires a company too. When Oracle comes in, it completely dismantles the upper management structure of a company, axes all the execs and VPs and replaces them with Oracle people. Their attitude is "This may not be the best way, but it's the Oracle way, and that's how we're doing it. After all,
we bought
you."
I don't imagine that their tactics are without their fair share of grudgebearing or discontent among the employees of the companies they buy, and we're really in a very unsettled period of time for Sun right now.
Ultimately though, Sun is set to become Oracle's hardware division, and to use an oft-quoted, slightly cliched platitude "You ain't seen nothin' yet."
Once upon a time I thought of Oracle like Microsoft as it slowly took over the business world of IT, but in a lot of ways Oracle reminds me more of Apple than Microsoft now in its rigid, uncompromising attitude about the way things should be done. Also in its asinine licensing schemes.
