The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In what is
being viewed as a move to vertically integrate its business, business
software giant Oracle has agreed to buy struggling servers hardware vendor
Sun Microsystems for US$7.4 billion cash. The deal should come as welcome to Sun jusr two weeks after acquisition talks with IBM broke down.
The deal will see Oracle pay a more than 40% premium of $9.50 a
share for the company whose founder Scott McNealey coined the phrase
“the network is the computer”.
Sun was at one time a rising star
in the Unix servers business, with its Solaris operating system and
Sparc based proprietary servers.
However, the commoditisation of the servers business through the x86 platform has bitten deeply into Sun’s bread and butter.
While
Sun is primarily considered to be a hardware company, it does have some
considerable software jewels in its crown. Aside from Solaris, Sun was
the developer of the Java software development platform and owns Star
Office, the commercial version of Open Office.
From Oracle's
point of view - or least what its boss Larry Ellison claims - the Sun
purchase will give Oracle a one-stop-shop or "applications to disk"
capability, where the company could offer customers a tightly
integrated hardware and software solution.
Commentators at this stage seem unsure about the wisdome of Oracle's
strategy with this purchase because it's the first time the software
giant has ventured boldly into the hardware space.
However, many note that previous acquisitions for Oracle such as PeopleSoft, Siebel and Bea have been successful.
In addition, as some pundits point out, Sun is not just a hardware
company but is also strong in the software platform space. And the
vertical integration of major computing conglomerates in the mould of
IBM and HP, with hardware, software and services appearsto be where the market is heading.
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