Re: Guess this puts the kibosh in regards to the oracle on apple talk

hpuxrac wrote:
> Next Tuesday, on the same day as the Steve Jobs Macworld Expo keynote,
> Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy are holding a town meeting for
> employees at Oracle's headquarters, which is in close proximity to
> Sun's. Here's the preliminary description from the e-mail invite:
>
> Join employees from both Sun and Oracle as they hear from their CEOs
> about:
>
> -Why the time is right to kick off the next phase of the Sun/Oracle
> alliance
> -How both companies intend to extend the importance of Java for the
> future
> -How Oracle's new pricing model for multi-core systems benefits
> customers
> -How Sun and Oracle will go to market together to expand adoption for
> Sun and Oracle technologies
>
> As partners for more than 20 years, Sun and Oracle have established
> themselves as a force in the enterprise, making Sun the #1 marketshare
> leader with Oracle globally and the #1 marketshare platform for Oracle
> Database and Applications. Over the last several months, the two
> companies have re-established closer ties on a number of fronts from
> Oracle's selection of Solaris 10 as its preferred 64-bit application
> development and deployment platform to Charles Phillips' participation
> in the launch of Sun's new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.
>
> Sun has been busy with alliances over the past year-Microsoft and
> Google, for example-but they haven't yielded much except cash from
> Microsoft and some press. This apparent recharged relationship appears
> to be more about Sun & Oracle against Microsoft, Sun vs. IBM, HP et al
> servers and perhaps some posturing versus IBM around Java. I'm
> surprised I didn't hear about this first in Jonathan Schwartz's blog...

Sorry I forgot to put in where I found this.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/004921.html Received on Mon Jan 09 2006 - 07:17:16 CST