Re: Oracle joins the NoSQL fray
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 03:49:15 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2011.10.06.03.49.14_at_gmail.com>
On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:27:30 -0700, phil_herring_at_yahoo.com.au wrote:
> On Oct 6, 12:48 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I love Hewlett-Packard, it's a wonderful printer company!
>
> On the other hand, my desktop can't make up its mind. Is it a Compaq or
> an HP? It says both.
>
> Such shennanigans would never have happened when Bill and Dave were in
> charge. It would have been one or the other!
>
> -- Phil
HP messed up royally. They have very expensive high end systems which are
being increasingly pushed out by much cheaper Linux systems. Cluster
systems are very fashionable now and HP high end is really suffering
because of it. They bought DEC, they haven't made much money out of it
and they have royally messed up VMS which had a potential to bring them
huge benefits, had they ported it to x86 architecture and made open
source. It would have killed Linux in its infancy, primarily because VMS
5.5-2, the last one I worked with, was much more mature and stable OS
than Linux is today, even with the latest kernels. They haven't made much
money out of Compaq, either.
They bought 3Par, in addition to their existing EVA storage line and
haven't made a splash. They have bought Polyserve, an extremely ambitious
technological company making an excellent cluster FS and have completely
squandered it. Nothing out of Polyserve, it all went to waste, just like
VMS. Recently, they have bought Autonomy, a British software company
which makes a fairly decent commercial text search engine. I don't see
how is the text search engine going to fit their software line. They had
a decent mind/market share with OmniBack, at one time a competitor to
NetBackup and EMC Networker, nothing came out of it. HP has the Midas
touch: everything they touch, they turn into a muffler.
-- http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Wed Oct 05 2011 - 22:49:15 CDT