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Monday, April 20. 2009

Larry said in the conference call regarding the acquisition(as reported by the Wall Street Journal):

In our opinion, Sun Solaris is by far the best Unix operating system in the business. With the acquisition of Sun, we will be able to uniquely integrate Sun Solaris and the Oracle database.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 16:16 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Really? Did Mr Ellison meant that? Probably we should take him back in time when oracle chose linux to solaris and the nose dive at Sun started. As much as I wanted SUN NOT to set, I detested the IBM deal. Now I see only MySQL getting killed. With IBM, almost all of the SUN's stuff except for JAVA would have been killed.

#1 amaszon on 2009-04-20 16:41 (Reply)

Linux ISNOT Unix, so your referenced Mr. Ellison's comment is not noteworthy. Still, Solaris is by far the most advanced OS currently available and I look forward to Oracle continuing to improve upon Solaris.

#1.1 Mr. E. on 2009-04-20 17:23 (Reply)

Wistfully from an ex-Sun software employee whose Unix code ironically
lives more visibly under both Apple's high-volume BSD Unix rubric and
the Linux GPL, long live the Stanford University Network.

Nothwithstanding an OS looking for a more profitable sponsor, it's sad
to see that when a company is very successful, it can sell for a multiple
of sales (witness Genentech going out at 8X sales) but when it is
desperate it only is worth a fraction of its revenues in the marketplace.

It is shocking to see exposed just how large the albatross of hardware
was. Rock must have missed its marketing window in the shadow of
the Intel instruction set monopoly, while Java and Solaris lives on for a
new day.

#2 retiarius (Homepage) on 2009-04-20 16:57 (Reply)

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