If Oracle had made a hostile bid, it wouldn't have surprised anybody. It is sad that Sun is reduced to such a state that they cant survive as a company anymore and have to offer themselves up for sale.
Most pundits didnt expect Oracle to get into hardware, but Oracle would never allow another competitor to buy Solaris on which most Oracle servers were installed. In fact Oracle would have bought Sun 10 or 15 years earlier if they could have afforded it.
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