Sun+Sybase, old news?

From: Richard J Kucera <kucerar_at_hhmi.org>
Date: 1998/11/11
Message-ID: <3649C038.B2DA53B9@hhmi.org>#1/1

SQL experts and market analysts,

With the purchase of NetDynamics, I suppose Sun hopes to compete in the application server arena with the likes of Oracle & IBM.

But how can they seriously expect to do so without a SQL DB background? They don't know how to "physically tune to business functions"
and they don't come close to the D2000 server generator tools.

Would there be a close partnership between Sun & Sybase in the future? They recently set an OLTP "world record" together. How close of a "partnership"
would be legal? Sun would jump out in front with the hardware, OS, app
server and database integrated under the partnership.

I wouldn't care, except I know of an Oracle shop who is buying ND server,
and I wonder about Oracle.

Yours humbly,
R. Kucera Received on Wed Nov 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CST