Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <205d4db5-f58f-4b0b-8368-e072574f4631_at_p6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>



On Apr 22, 10:59 am, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> Noons wrote:
> > hpuxrac wrote,on my timestamp of 21/04/2009 10:37 AM:
>
> >> 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.
>
> > Microsoft's response will be to get into hardware as well, but it's a
> > bit too late.  I can see it already:
>
> > Balmer: Dell, are you for sale?
> > Dell: Get lost!
> > Balmer: AMD, are you for sale?
> > AMD: Say *wot*?
> > Balmer: Lenovo, are you for sale?
> > Lenovo: Solly, no speak engrish
> > Balmer: anyone for sale out there, we need to buy a server maker?
> > (silence...)
>
> Hardware? I'll take a Xbox, if it's cheap enough. But then I'll install
> Linux on it.
>
> Palooka

Hey! I lay claim to the first public announcement of an Oracle database started on a RAID USB key! After that, anything is possible.
;) Received on Wed Apr 22 2009 - 02:55:50 CDT

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