Reason #2: Would Make Oracle A Serious Storage Vendor
NetApp is the storage industry's third-largest storage vendor in revenue terms, after EMC and IBM, and is also the fastest-growing of the top five vendors, according to IDC.
An acquisition of NetApp would make Oracle a serious power in the storage market, especially combined with the storage technology it got with the Sun acquisition.
That kind of storage power, combined with a rejuvenated Sun server portfolio and Oracle's database and middleware, would help Oracle be a contender with the likes of Cisco and HP for being the single throat to choke in the data center, as well as give it a leg up in laying the foundation for being one of the leaders in the development of cloud computing.
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