Independent of whether Oracle buys RIM and/or how their on-going legal wrangling with Google turns out… the simple reality is this: RIM’s woes are a combination of self-inflicted and the fact that the market has (largely) passed them by.
As for Oracle, their ‘growth-through-acquisition’ strategy is only going to take them so far. Moreover, Google has not only got their hands-full with trying to sort out Motorola but is also dealing with not just Oracle’s lawsuit but their main competition in two other Smartphone heavyweights that are not going to stand pat.
In sum, look for this space to be anything but static over the next several years as it goes through the growth phase into the maturation phase of an inevitable product life-cycle.
(Source) PC World: http://goo.gl/F7AGw