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Whodunnit - or: Who is behind the EC prolonged investigation

Friday, September 25. 2009

I have several suspects who could be behind the prolonged investigation ("Round up the usual suspects!"). I will not speculate about them here. But i will link to an interesting article, which points to IBM as the responsible company. Maureen O'Gara writes in Oracle-Sun: IBM Reportedly Behind Delay

Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal.

I know it's problematic to cite Mrs. O'Gara but this rumour doesn't sound totally unreasonable. At the end: Even without considering this article would put my money on IBM in a bet as well, albeit i would hedge some of the possible losses by betting some money on two other competitors of Oracle. At the end it's just speculation, because i don't understand why someone thinks that Oracle RDBMS and Mysql are competitor I've worked with mysql Sales guys and even they don't say that

They are complementary: Mysql is the weapon of choice, when oracle is too heavyweight or for Web 2.0 workloads. And Oracle RDBMS is the weapon of choice when you need a full featured high end database. Pretty different markets.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle, The IT Business at 17:48 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)
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just their fear about the combined Oracle and Sun.

As soon as the EC has approved the aquisition, a couple of companies will have fun and customer will see how much sense this makes

#1 Frank (Homepage) on 2009-09-25 18:31 (Reply)

This, from the same Maureen O'Gara who was in SCO's pocket during the SCO / Novell litigation? The same Maureen O'Gara who attempted (but failed) to slander Pamela Jones of Groklaw?

Her anti-Linux, anti-IBM bias is well documented, therefore I wouldn't lend much credence to anything she writes. The fact that you've chosen to quote her here significantly detracts from the quality and creditability of your blog.

#2 Ron on 2009-09-25 19:43 (Reply)

I just quoted her to show that i'm not the only who suspect one of the big guns behind this delay. So at least i'm not that paranoid to be the only one.

Of course i have to admit, that this quite ringing at the name in my head didn't get through, wanting to say me that the name is quite prestressed. I assume my brain was to slow because of the short night and long day ...

Credibility of this information... don't know ... maybe in the same range like the rumours that Oracle will sell of hw to HP

It didn't hindered many outlets to quot the CNN story (the churchill interview should ansert the question) ... it's maybe possible that she has some informations, maybe not.

The point after all is: At the end the information isn't that far fetched to dismiss it as untrue. I think there are some companies seeing Sun/Oracle as a big competitor . When this investigation has closed it would be nice to know why the EC believes that Mysql and Oracle are competing products. As i wrote in my article: IBM is top on my list, two other names look relastic enough that i would bet a smaller amount of money on it to hedge some losses.

#2.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2009-09-25 19:56 (Reply)

what's wrong beeing anti-IBM?

#2.2 Frank (Homepage) on 2009-09-25 20:20 (Reply)

Nothing, just pointing out that Maureen is most likely a shill who's commentary is dubious at best.

#2.2.1 Ron on 2009-09-25 20:27 (Reply)

There is nothing wrong with it.

But Ron is correct ... the name O'Gara is somewhat prestressed and a red rag in the community due to her role in the SCO/IBM lawsuit.

Nevertheless i wouldn't totally dismiss the article of her, as the rumour would match in the complete view of the situation.

#2.2.2 Joerg Moellenkamp (Homepage) on 2009-09-25 20:30 (Reply)

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