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)