Roadmap for Sun Microsystems customers after the Oracle acquisition

In this videocast, Burton Group analyst Richard Jones outlines the potential roadmap for Sun customers. While the future of Sun technologies like Sparc, Solaris, MySQL and Java are in question, Jones offers advice based on Oracle's past actions and business focus.

In this podcast Q&A, Jones answers specific questions about Oracle's plans for its Sun acquisitions.

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