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Oracle and Sun - or: Do you need more commitment?

Thursday, September 10. 2009

Yesterday i've got a pdf of this ad, a few minutes ago Glynn Foster hinted to an article on digg.

Would the people spreading all this "Sun will set" -FUD please eat their shorts?

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris, Sun/Oracle, The IT Business at 09:03 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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Wooo-hoo!!

#1 Dave on 2009-09-10 11:26 (Reply)

I need that pdf....

#2 Mika on 2009-09-10 11:38 (Reply)

Lol, nice - short and to the point, just like Oracle's ad

Can't wait

#3 Dave on 2009-09-10 11:40 (Reply)

and JAVA ?

#4 Oliver on 2009-09-10 12:07 (Reply)

You know that Oracle uses JAVA for or in many of its products?

#4.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-09-10 12:13 (Reply)

Hmmm,

I think there is one thing missing:

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Oracle will charge twice as much as Sun does right now
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Just kidding

But nice to read, let's hope its true.

#5 Alex on 2009-09-10 13:31 (Reply)

Sure, but Oracle can say they "plan" to do whatever they want.

They still don't actually have to do it, and they can still lay off 30,000 other people who aren't working on those things.

#6 DeeLite on 2009-09-10 15:29 (Reply)

1. Making such a statement in public and then do otherwise can be very problematic in the eyes of the SEC....

2. Did you read the third point ???

#6.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-09-10 17:49 (Reply)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/10/oracle_sun_sparc_commitment/

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Oracle-verspricht-Investitionen-in-Sun-Hardware-und-Solaris--/meldung/145160

Slightly O.T. :
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1679

#7 Michiel (Homepage) on 2009-09-10 20:13 (Reply)

If I'm expected to take this ad seriously, I should probably be very concerned about the omissions - things that my employer relies on daily, or that we might consider relying on: Sun x86 hardware, SGE, Open Storage to name a few.

#8 Andy Leonard (Homepage) on 2009-09-11 01:11 (Reply)

Why?

-SPARC and x86 Systems are using a lot of the same components (chassis, power-supplies, disks, fans etc.). Almost all that is developed for SPARC can be used for X86 systems and vice versa. This lowers costs for both platforms.

-Why would Larry put all eggs in one basket (SPARC)?

-Oracle already committed to push storage further. Oracle DBs produce a lot of data to be archived...

#8.1 Mika on 2009-09-11 09:33 (Reply)

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