Re: The end is near: Coca Cola switches to UDB
From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:16:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <cd9ed1f2-a04b-40af-9060-e90858a88b65_at_o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 7, 12:58 pm, Mladen Gogala <n..._at_email.here.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:16:27 -0700, joel garry wrote:
> > If Oracle follows in the footsteps of DEC, Larry Ellison would buy up
> > the remaining customers and all the intellectual property of the
> > flagship database product for pennies on the dollar. His net worth
> > would putatively drop from $25B to $2B, creating huge paper losses and
> > carryforward tax losses, so he could get back up to a substantial
> > percentage of $23B tax free. Numbers extracted from my butt, but
> > hopefully the concept is clear. It only wouldn't work if he did it on
> > purpose.
>
> The problem is, that would signal the death of Oracle RDBMS. I wouldn't
> like that to happen. VMS, my favorite OS of all times, has vanished
> because of arrogant marketing policies. DEC was number 2 in the computing
> world and it crumbled in a matter of months.
>
> --http://mgogala.freehos.com
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:16:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <cd9ed1f2-a04b-40af-9060-e90858a88b65_at_o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 7, 12:58 pm, Mladen Gogala <n..._at_email.here.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:16:27 -0700, joel garry wrote:
> > If Oracle follows in the footsteps of DEC, Larry Ellison would buy up
> > the remaining customers and all the intellectual property of the
> > flagship database product for pennies on the dollar. His net worth
> > would putatively drop from $25B to $2B, creating huge paper losses and
> > carryforward tax losses, so he could get back up to a substantial
> > percentage of $23B tax free. Numbers extracted from my butt, but
> > hopefully the concept is clear. It only wouldn't work if he did it on
> > purpose.
>
> The problem is, that would signal the death of Oracle RDBMS. I wouldn't
> like that to happen. VMS, my favorite OS of all times, has vanished
> because of arrogant marketing policies. DEC was number 2 in the computing
> world and it crumbled in a matter of months.
>
> --http://mgogala.freehos.com
Would Peoplesoft, SAP, or indeed, Oracle Fusion care?
jg
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