It came as shocking news to the Open-Source community when ORACLE announced its takeover of SUN Microsystems. Over the years, SUN Microsystems has grown as a reliable platform for Open-Source applications and has blessed computer users with popular applications like JAVA, MySQL, Solaris and so on.
It has become a trend of late that ORACLE goes all the way to takeover Open-Source companies. One tends to think what ORACLE is planning for the IT world since they already dominate the Closed-Source market. But, Knowing that they acquiring major stakes in most developing technologies (Linux, Embedded Computing, Cloud Computing e.t.c.), It would be advisable that IT experts (including students & wannabes) get acquainted with ORACLE and its range of products...