Remember when Oracle was a database vendor and Sun Microsystems sold workstations? Yes, you can still buy Oracle 11g or a Sun Ultra. However, last week's big deals -- Oracle's $8.5 billion buyout of BEA Systems and Sun's $1 billion deal for MySQL -- remind us that the days when vendors fit into tidy niches are long gone.
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