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Some things, when you combine them, amount to something less than the sum of the parts.  Think Irish coffee.  It ruins a perfectly good cup of coffee and a nice shot of whiskey.  

Today we’re treated to the latest episode in Sun Microsystems, one of the longest running soap operas in Silicon Valley, the one entitled “The One When Larry Bought Scott”.   The Oracle-Sun deal hasn’t gone down yet, but assuming it does, it can’t ruin Sun.  That happened long ago.  As for Ellison’s outfit, it only gets bigger and stronger.  And it gets Java, “the most important software asset (it’s) ever acquired”, he says, for less money than it paid for BEA, Peoplesoft and Siebel.  Hey, that’s why he’s Larry Ellison.  IBM had no comment.