Ellison will definitely make more money than SUN did with its own assets.He is going to put price tag to anything that boots. But SUN represent something much much bigger how many open source projects do oracle supports? none!!!
I am never a big fan of Microsoft.But i think it make a lot of business sense if they buy plam.It is a lot better competing in that market than fight google in search market.i think the only company that can compete with google in search is facebook!