Orcale & Sun - applications to disk ?

Quoting the Sun site:
"The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up."

Like it or not, clearly that's a vision. The One of a monolithic vendor...