Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:41:55 +0200
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"Jatinder" <jatinder.1975_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I had been at a seminar where the speaker has his views on Why Oracle
> target Sun??
>
> # 1 Get ahead in competition by Completing their suite. They have
> middleware,Database and now hardware.
>
> # 2 Break into Low end customer who think of MySQL in place of Oracle
> by offering MySQL GPL. Build the relation and convert the prospect
> into Customer.
>
> # 3 Most of the job portals are running on MySQL , so get their hold
> too.
>
> May be I am missing something.
> Leave your comment.
>
> With Warm regards
> Jatinder SIngh
> http://jatindersingh.blogspot.com
It's true that MySQL > Oracle XE.
Now if they could create something like APEX for MySQL (MAPEX), that would
be a superb web application development framework.
Matthias Received on Sat Apr 25 2009 - 05:41:55 CDT