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Oracle Switching To Linux
Bill Kendrick writes: "This Computerworld story quotes Oracle CEO Larry Ellison as saying 'We'll be on Linux no later than the summer, so we'll be running our whole business on Linux." When asked what this means for Unix vendors like Sun... "It will be several years before the big machine dies, but inevitably the big machine will die.' Ouch!"
Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers running Linux, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison said yesterday.
I think we can chalk this up as a win.
GO LINUX!
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Hmmm, gonna be pulling some late nighters there. I'll give him that its good talk. But I bet this is one case where the "sales" department hasn't told the support department their pitch yet.
"YOU TOLD THE CUSTOMERS WE'D DO WHAT?"
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
Unforturnately for Larry, the same quote is being said to him by the Free Software movement....
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...to hear the purveyor's of insanely expensive commercial software boasting about how they're switching from expensive commercial software to free software?
Perhaps Sun should announce their commitment to PostgreSQL.
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
.. i wish he would stop dancing around topics all the time, and just be blunt for once...
So THIS is how he plans to get rid of the competition. (Pictures of MIG flown by Larry flying over competitors corporate HQ, surface to air missiles a-flying). Can we all chip in and buy one of these for Linus?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
successfully destroyed each other as they tried
to take down Windows.
It all started when Scott McNealy in a rash of
unintelligent banter retaliated toward
Oracle by announcing "oh yeah! Well... well...
Solaris will only be supporting Linux
from now on too!"
-J
Why don't you just root the boxes? That way you won't have to root for either side. :)
Let's see...
Oracle are saying that big servers will eventually die and be replaced by clusters of smaller servers running Linux.
IBM are saying that clusters of smaller servers will be replaced by mainframe-class servers running Linux.
Place your bets please, ladies and gentlemen.
Does anyone remember that Simpsons episode where Homer went to work for a guy called Scorpio who had a secret underground base with a death ray or something, and he was trying to take over the world.
:)
For some reason this guy always reminded me of Larry Ellison so I can just picture him flying that MiG over Microsoft's hq in Redmond
sPh
In the dark bowels of a cubicle farm at Oracle...
Programmers slouch in front of their computers...
And read these fateful words..
Spoken by their master...
Perhaps in haste and bravado...
We'll be on Linux no later than the summer,...
First there is silence...
Then, in one collective voice...
For all to hear...
"Oh shit!"
I am picturing a person in front of a computer trying to get a critical peice of work done when the computer suddenly reboots. He looks up and screams, and the camera zooms into the blackness of his open mouth to a Linux logo with the words, "Got Linux?"
-- Never make a general statement.
So buy Red Hat database. That's what its for. You get the benefits of free software, and it is fully-supported by Red Hat.
Redhat, one of the most trusted and experienced names in the database industry...
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.