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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Yeah Like this will EVER happen.

[pentalive]

The Income tax is a huge lever for government control. Want more of a thing, give a tax deduction (like the deduction for kids or mortgage payments). Want less? tax it.

Re:Yeah Like this will EVER happen.

[cyphercell]

what about incentive for two kids, punishment for anything above 4. Example, 3 kids would give a deduction for having one. (+2 tax bonus -1 tax penalty = one child tax deduction).

Re:Yeah Like this will EVER happen.

[Locke2005]

What about incentivizing behavior that shortens your life expectancy, like smoking, drinking, and drug use, rather then disincentivizing these behaviors like we do now? Allowing a 1-for-1 replacement rate still results in population growth, simply because people are living longer. I do agree with the original post in the sense that if you subsidize breeders, you will get more offspring. I'm just not convinced that that is a societal good.

Re:No talk about Solaris

[Digital_Mercenary]

FREEBSD sparc 64> Runs great on t100 and t200 servers.