RE: Oracle to acquire Sun

From: Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:26:20 -0400
Message-ID: <C0A5E31718FC064A91E9FD7BE2F081B10201B098_at_exchange.gridapp.com>

So, as someone who has to support both AIX and Solaris as part of our software product, if I had to shoot one of them in the head, it would be AIX 7 days a week and twice on Sunday.

Oracle on AIX behaves oddly, with a variety of fun JVM bugs from an automation perspective, plus it doesn't have any of the awesome DTrace/ZFS that comes with Solaris, plus there's no x86 variant of AIX.

As far as the HP partnership, I suspect it will live out its life based on the contractual obligation, and then the hardware will be silently replaced with Sun x86 hardware. I doubt Oracle will drop Exadata so soon, though they might transition it to a range of bundled solutions.

Remember that the Oracle/Sun transaction won't be closed until midyear, and so it will be quite a while before Oracle starts making any serious changes to the product lines.

Thanks,
Matt

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Booth Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:11 PM
To: cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com
Cc: rjoralist_at_society.servebeer.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Oracle to acquire Sun

2009/4/20 Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com>:
> wait... didn't Oracle just make an alliance with HP? what about
exadata?
> does this mean Oracle will go back to sun? does this mean Solaris
won't die?
> I thought IBM was buying sun... that would've been great. They kill
off
> solaris and veritas, use tivoli and aix. Aix gets beter compatibility
with
> Oracle, SPARC dies off and P6 takes over.

There's a write up in Management Today:
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/899813/will-sun-shin e-74bn-oracle-match

Apparentlyt he IBM deal fell through.

Stephen

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