From: Richard J Kucera <kucerar@hhmi.org>
Subject: Sun+Sybase, old news?
Date: 1998/11/11
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SQL experts and market analysts,

With the purchase of NetDynamics,  I suppose Sun hopes to compete
in the application server arena with the likes of Oracle & IBM.

But how can they seriously expect to do so without a SQL DB
background?   They don't know how to "physically tune to business
functions"
and they don't come close to the D2000 server generator tools.

Would there be a close partnership between Sun & Sybase in the future?
They recently set an OLTP "world record" together.   How close of a
"partnership"
would be legal?   Sun would jump out in front with the hardware, OS,
app
server and database integrated under the partnership.

I wouldn't care,  except I know of an Oracle shop who is buying ND
server,
and I wonder about Oracle.

Yours humbly,
R. Kucera