Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun
From: Palooka <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:59:42 +0100
Message-ID: <3_tHl.56241$eO4.39992_at_newsfe09.ams2>
Noons wrote:
> hpuxrac wrote,on my timestamp of 21/04/2009 10:37 AM:
>
>
> None whatsoever.
>
> This is a direct shot at Microsoft. Balmer was stuck for words to
> comment on it, because M$ essentially has no way of responding to this.
>
> In another coupla years Oracle is gonna have a turn-key solution to beat
> Win-servers out of DCs.
>
> Microsoft's response will be to get into hardware as well, but it's a
> bit too late. I can see it already:
>
> Balmer: Dell, are you for sale?
> Dell: Get lost!
> Balmer: AMD, are you for sale?
> AMD: Say *wot*?
> Balmer: Lenovo, are you for sale?
> Lenovo: Solly, no speak engrish
> Balmer: anyone for sale out there, we need to buy a server maker?
> (silence...)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:59:42 +0100
Message-ID: <3_tHl.56241$eO4.39992_at_newsfe09.ams2>
Noons wrote:
> hpuxrac wrote,on my timestamp of 21/04/2009 10:37 AM:
>
>> >> Compared to some of the many many acquisitions that oracle has made >> over the last years this move has many possible angles it will be >> interesting to see if and what impact is made on the oracle on linux >> evangelism.
>
> None whatsoever.
>
> This is a direct shot at Microsoft. Balmer was stuck for words to
> comment on it, because M$ essentially has no way of responding to this.
>
> In another coupla years Oracle is gonna have a turn-key solution to beat
> Win-servers out of DCs.
>
> Microsoft's response will be to get into hardware as well, but it's a
> bit too late. I can see it already:
>
> Balmer: Dell, are you for sale?
> Dell: Get lost!
> Balmer: AMD, are you for sale?
> AMD: Say *wot*?
> Balmer: Lenovo, are you for sale?
> Lenovo: Solly, no speak engrish
> Balmer: anyone for sale out there, we need to buy a server maker?
> (silence...)
Hardware? I'll take a Xbox, if it's cheap enough. But then I'll install Linux on it.
Palooka Received on Tue Apr 21 2009 - 19:59:42 CDT