Well, the week is only 2 days old and there are deals aplenty, VMWare announced another acquisition yesterday (of Thinstall) and this morning, BEA has finally given in to be assimilated by the borg in Redwood Shores, Oracle for $8.5B. Finally, Sun Microsystems has finally made good on its threat to enter the database market agreeing to acquire MySQL for $1B.

All in all, an interesting set of developments. I think it’s a clear signal (among others) that we’re entering a downward cycle. In in the cleantech market, consolidation is running amok too and one only has to look at the ethanol segment to see what’s forthcoming for solar and wind in the not too distant future…