Oracle to buy Sun

Oracle is buying Sun. I know Sun's been on death watch for a while now, but it's still kind of sad to see them no longer exist as an independent company. I worked for Sun for a summer in college, and I would have liked to work for them again, e.g. in the Programming Language Research Group, but I'm not really sure if I'd want to work for Oracle (and who knows if they'll keep all of Sun's research teams, let alone start hiring again). I have a general impression of Oracle as kind of evil, but maybe that's just FUD.

Anyone want to speculate on the ramifications of this?