{"id":23,"date":"2009-04-23T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/red-giant\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T09:32:57","slug":"red-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/red-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sev.prnewswire.com\/computer-electronics\/20090420\/SF0137320042009-1.html\">Oracle buys Sun Microsystems<\/a>. It seems this company simply cann&#8217;t stop shopping&#8230; Peoplesoft, Siebel, InnoDB and now Java and MySQL.<\/p>\n<p>If we call IBM a blue giant should we name Oracle a red one? Or may be a Red Devil?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not carrying about Java at all, I&#8217;m worried about the MySQL future a bit. I don&#8217;t want to see this great project dying. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/venturecapital\/2009\/04\/22\/oracle-sun-deal-promising-for-database-start-ups\/?mod=rss_WSJBlog\">market sees it different<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle buys Sun Microsystems. It seems this company simply cann&#8217;t stop shopping&#8230; Peoplesoft, Siebel, InnoDB and now Java and MySQL. If we call IBM a blue giant should we name Oracle a red one? Or may be a Red Devil?&#8230; Not carrying about Java at all, I&#8217;m worried about the MySQL future a bit. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}