Re: Sun+Sybase, old news?

Sun+Oracle have a HUGE relationship.
All of Sun's financials run on ... guess what Oracle Financials. Oracle database is developed on ... SUN!!!
Oracle Financials IS NOT GENERATED from D2000, so what does that have to do with it???
Thor HW

Richard J Kucera wrote in message <3649C038.B2DA53B9_at_hhmi.org>...
>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