Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun
From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:16:06 +0200
Message-ID: <49f18354$0$187$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
joel garry schreef:
> On Apr 22, 8:39 am, Shakespeare <what..._at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>
> That initially hit me too, until I realized there's prolly a whole
> lotta old superdomes and whatever the various volume sellers were that
> are relatively stable, starting to get nibbled off by the competition
> after feeling left behind and experimenting with and rejecting linux.
>
> Of couse, "leading" can be defined in many ways. Just one Amazon plus
> a few governments can skew all the stats. Oracle itself may have a
> lot of hardware left in use from the glory days of Sun as primary
> development platform (pure speculation, of course, though I am very
> curious).
>
> jg
> --
> _at_home.com is bogus.
> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/15/bc-surrey-laptop-crash-kills-woman.html
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:16:06 +0200
Message-ID: <49f18354$0$187$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
joel garry schreef:
> On Apr 22, 8:39 am, Shakespeare <what..._at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> So according to Mr. Charles Phillips, it's all about Java and Sun Solaris! >> Especially, this quoute surprises me: >> >> "The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle >> database". >> >> Shakespeare
>
> That initially hit me too, until I realized there's prolly a whole
> lotta old superdomes and whatever the various volume sellers were that
> are relatively stable, starting to get nibbled off by the competition
> after feeling left behind and experimenting with and rejecting linux.
>
> Of couse, "leading" can be defined in many ways. Just one Amazon plus
> a few governments can skew all the stats. Oracle itself may have a
> lot of hardware left in use from the glory days of Sun as primary
> development platform (pure speculation, of course, though I am very
> curious).
>
> jg
> --
> _at_home.com is bogus.
> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/15/bc-surrey-laptop-crash-kills-woman.html
Ah, that's why he said "the Oracle Database" and not "Oracle Databases"...... he meant THEIR OWN DB.....
Shakespeare Received on Fri Apr 24 2009 - 04:16:06 CDT