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Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the duck-and-cover dept.

The Register writes "Sun invited Oracle president Charles Phillips and chief corporate architect Edward Screven to an employee-only town hall this Wednesday, where they took questions on what's coming. They said they'd be 'crazy' to close Java, that Oracle 'needs' MySQL, and all Sun's processors look appealing. They hedged on OpenOffice — Phillips said he couldn't comment on any product line — and on Sun's work in high-performance computing. Screven made it pretty clear the Sun vision of cloud computing does not fit with Oracle's; Oracle sees itself as a provider of infrastructure like virtualization to make clouds, not a provider of hosted services. As for who's staying and who's getting cut at Sun: Phillips said Oracle needs Sun, but warned 'tough decisions' will be coming. Don't forget, this is the company that couriered pink slips to the PeopleSoft staff it cut following that acquisition."

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  1. Re:Here's praying... by CookieOfFortune · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like that term... Linux hegemony. :D

  2. Re:Here's praying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha ha! It must infuriate you to know that we're going to gut your OS and leave it for dead! Onwards to Solaris my brethren, we have an operating system to pillage and a user base to rape!

  3. Re:remember, sun != peoplesoft by Migala77 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the case of Oracle, you have a company that makes an obscenely bloated, broken, overpriced software package that has caused havoc and pain across the continent.

    Fixed that for ya

  4. Re:Here's praying... by rackserverdeals · · Score: 1, Funny

    Linux doesn't need Solaris to be GPL'd. All the cool new stuff that Solaris came out with years ago should be in Linux any day now.

    Any day now...

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    Dual Opteron < $600
  5. Re:Here's praying... by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    and a user base to rape!

    Dude, have you SEEN the user base? Not even with someone else's dick.

  6. Re:How It Went Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wanted to link that pic of the Iraq guy at the press conference, obviously lying, with his hands in a "simmer down" gesture, but I can't find it. Maybe it wasn't Iraq. I dunno. Someone find it.

    Methinks you are a bit unclear on how this whole Internet thing works.

  7. Summary by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun Employees: What is our status when Oracle takes over?

    Oracle President: See Figure 1

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    I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
  8. Re:remember, sun != peoplesoft by VGPowerlord · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the case of Oracle, you have a company that makes an obscenely bloated, broken, overpriced software package that is causing havoc and pain around the world.

    Fixed that for ya

    Fixed again!

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  9. Re:Here's praying... by Tanktalus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where's all my cool Linux stuff on Solaris, though?

    I'm sure you could just compile cygwin ... :-P

  10. Re:Here's praying... by kybred · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... to pillage and a user base to rape!

    Always rape BEFORE you pillage (and burn)!

  11. Re:No One Takes The Viral GPL Seriously Anymore by try_anything · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, even married people dream of getting laid someday.