Re: HP or Sun for Oracle

In article <781721105snz_at_sambusys.demon.co.uk>

           psb_at_sambusys.demon.co.uk "Paul Beardsell" writes:

> In article <373o1k$q16_at_jalisco.optimum.net>
> tim_boemker_at_zacatecas.optimum.com "Tim Boemker" writes:
>
> > You might consider that Oracle has chosen Sun as its primary
> > development platform, Sun and Oracle share source code, etc. (Detailed
> > in a report called "Oracle for Sun -- An Enterprise Computing
> > Platform.")
> >
> > Tim Boemker
>
> I don't believe it. Quote from your source. I imagine the doc you
> refer to is from Sun. I can show you docs from Sequent where similar
> claims are made for the Oracle - Sequent relationship. Doubtless
> HP make the same claim. Doubtless Oracle has such an agreement with
> many ``primaries''.
>
> If true then I want to see such a doc from Oracle. Because AFAIK,
> Oracle has never publicly held a HW supplier preference.
>
> And I'm interested: what legitimate reason could Oracle have to show
> Sun its source code? And vice versa. Do they do out of a spirit of
> openness?
>
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My impression is that Oracle have a different `primary' development platform for *each* of the major areas e.g. RDBMS, tools, CASE, Parallel Server. Also, major hardware vendors do have agreements with Oracle whereby they exchange staff and so on, and I can't believe that these people don't see quite a chunk of source sometimes.

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