Oracle has published an faq doc on their site for clarifying sun acquisition. Just fyi http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html From what I could get - - oracle plans to grow the sun hardware business - oracle will remain committed to Linux as ever. I could not get much on solaris support, except that oracle will further optimize the database on this platform. - MySQL will be an addition to the existing suite of databases. It will continue to function independently. - innovation and investment in java will continue. Java remains important for oracle's existing products also. - nothing on OpenOffice.org Thanks! Amar Www.amar-Padhi.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l