This acquisition caused concern among Sun's original software communities, fearing they would be excluded from Oracle's portfolio. Everyone associated with Sun's Kenai project, OpenSolaris, the open source server and application portal projects, and the NetBeans IDE have reason to be concerned simply because their future and ever-increasing progress depends on Oracle's decisions to move forward. Certainly, downsizing is implied if any of these technologies and programs are abandoned. However, some positives from the overall acquisition include increasing a potential competitive advantage for Oracle in terms of its ability to build vertical applications, something IBM and Hewlett-Packard are currently unable to do. Additionally, as Ramchandra Naik, analyst at Company and Market Intelligent Research Practice – Datamonitor India, points out, Sun and Oracle have had a working relationship for over 20 years. The Solaris operating system, for example, happens to be the primary platform for hosting the Oracle database, while the Fusion middleware developed by Capgemini and Oracle uses Java. Drawing on the two companies' previous relationships, he says: “There may not be any major overlap issues. » Larry Ellison is betting that the deal will give his company an edge over IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and EMC.19 In late 2009, Larry Ellison received and accepted a cut in executive pay in the midst of a recession. Strangely, the chief financial officer, Jeff Epstein, was the only one to receive an annual salary "in the money," meaning that its value was higher than the issue price for the period.20 This company-wide success company was the product of Oracle's corporate governance. exercising its internal mechanism as an expression of stakeholder concern, but it was more the case for...... middle of paper ......hillips, explained the problems facing CIOs Current: They try to find a single way or tool to manage the application stack, but all of them are completely unpredictable. All applications involved, from middleware to storage, require constant patching, fine-tuning, and high costs. He finally summed it up by saying, “You don't need 18 different vendors and 2,000 configurations to have competition. You have to limit it a little. And I think we've convinced people that this makes sense, and beyond that, we think the whole industry is moving in this direction. And we can accelerate that by standardizing that whole stack and showing people how it's done - people like that "iPod for business" analogy. So, in addition to the need to address mobile technology, Oracle and other CIOs face a problem with traditional methods of managing applications..27