Quick bytes on Oracle-Sun Micro merger

BANGALORE, INDIA: If anyone dreamt of challenging Bill Gates, seriously, it was Larry Ellison. Now this looks like a dream come true. Stuff of legends.

By snapping Sun Microsystem, Oracle has crash-landed into the OS-cum-desktop-cum-programming platform party.

Here are the gains:

1. Oracle gets an Operating Systems in Solaris, a desktop in 'Openoffice' and a platform in Java

2. Gets a better Opensource database management system in MySql

3. Gets its foot into Cloud Computing

4. Gives notice to IBM and Microsoft

5. Gets into Unix server market

In short, Oracle morphs into a full-blooded software company.