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Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions

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 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!

  2. 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.

  3. 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.
  4. Re:Here's praying... by kybred · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Always rape BEFORE you pillage (and burn)!

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

    Dude, even married people dream of getting laid someday.