Java is pretty important

Tarus points us to a couple of good posts on Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems:

While I thought Sun paid too much for MySQL, I think Oracle got this one right. The best analysis I’ve seen so far is from Larry Augustin, so if you’re interested in such things be sure to check it out.

UPDATE: Monty weighs in.

Adventures in Open Source: Oracle Buys Sun (20 Apr 2009)

If MSFT gets hostile

Marc Andreesen's musings on what happens if Microsoft attempts a hostile takeover of Yahoo are worth reading:

I have not seen a detailed analysis of how a full hostile takeover might play out -- the kind of analysis that you would be receiving if you were a Microsoft or Yahoo board member.

So I asked a pair of expert corporate attorneys -- Michael Sullivan and Ed Deibert at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk and Rabkin in San Francisco -- to work up such an analysis. What follows is their take blended with my commentary.