In the world of enterprise technology that has become dominated by an increasingly smaller pool of players, company leaders often swing between taking potshots at their rivals and singing praises next.

When Sun Microsystems’ co-founder Scott McNealy slammed Oracle for its software pricing policy in 2004, he probably would not have known that five years later, his legacy now lies in the hands of Oracle, the enterprise software behemoth that has now cast its sight on IBM with the Oracle-Sun merger.

During the Oracle Openworld opening keynote, which was clearly aimed at reassuring Sun customers over the future of their investments, McNealy expressed confidence that Oracle would take care of his legacy. “Our technology will find a nice home,” he said, adding that Oracle will continue to innovate on the Sparc and Solaris more than what Sun is doing now. …

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun’s Scott McNealy are expected to take the stage at the opening keynote of Oracle’s annual business technology conference. Those who are closely following the developments of the deal, including the European Union’s investigation over the competition concerns and Oracle’s roadmap for Sun’s products, will be watching the two industry bigwigs closely as they shed more light on their union.

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