Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun

From: <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:13:05 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <46225a60-3f36-4d27-8e00-93bd5729a8c6_at_f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>

On Apr 21, 9:05 am, Noons <wizofo..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:

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> > Compared to some of the many many acquisitions that oracle has made
> > over the last years this move has many possible angles it will be
> > interesting to see if and what impact is made on the oracle on linux
> > evangelism.
>
> None whatsoever.
>
> This is a direct shot at Microsoft.  Balmer was stuck for words to comment on
> it, because M$ essentially has no way of responding to this.
>
> In another coupla years Oracle is gonna have a turn-key solution to beat
> Win-servers out of DCs.

Running linux? Running Solaris? Running both? Received on Tue Apr 21 2009 - 09:13:05 CDT