It seems that Oracle wants to be more like IBM, that too the IBM of the 1960s.

On Wednesday, various Oracle chiefs took turns to detail the firm's plans for integrating the hardware and software products of Sun Microsystems into Oracle's own offerings. Several people who listened in closely pointed to IMB of 1965, which provided consumers with hardware-software systems that were tightly integrated.

"We want to recreate that IBM of the 1960s, but on an open standards platform. The bottom line is, we want to change and improve the way people buy [IT] systems, the way they run them and the way they manage them. Complete systems, not just a series of components", said Oracle president Charles Phillips.

Oracle's Chief Architect Edward Screven stressed that Oracle will now be broadening its range of virtualization products; all thanks to the vast number of applications it had obtained as a result of Sun's takeover.