Oracle Switching To Linux

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Posted by timothy on Thursday January 31, 2002 @08:42AM from the there's-floor-room-at-lwce-for-larry dept.

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!"

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Re:Gold Medal by bribecka · 2002-01-31 08:48 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

Oh yeah, big win! Linux replaced THREE SERVERS! 783,472,991 to go!

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He'll be flying into the airport late again... by somethingwicked · 2002-01-31 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

"You'll see us taking FULL SUPPORT RESPONSIBILITY for Linux," he said. "If you're running the app server and something goes wrong, call us and we'll come and fix it."
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?"

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Larry to Sun.... by wowbagger · 2002-01-31 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Larry to Sun et al.

I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

Unforturnately for Larry, the same quote is being said to him by the Free Software movement....

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Isn't it a bit ironic... by GCP · 2002-01-31 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

...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.

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Re:Will they access Linux with NC's? by nizo · 2002-01-31 09:02 · Score: 5, Funny

But if Larry's next payment to Russia for his newest MiG comes due and he doesn't have the cash, he just changes the pricing structure on the Oracle RDBMS
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?

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