Oracle Won't Abandon SPARC, Says Ellison

fm6 writes "When the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems was announced, it was widely assumed that Oracle was interested only in Sun's software technology, and would sell or discontinue all its hardware businesses. Larry Ellison, in an interview just posted on the Oracle web site, says that's not what's going to happen. In particular, SPARC isn't going anywhere (PDF): 'Once we own Sun we're going to increase the investment in SPARC. We think designing our own chips is very, very important. Even Apple is designing its own chips these days.'"

Comments

mmmmm chips

[McGiraf]

hell, even doritos make their own chips

Re:mmmmm chips

[MBCook]

No, they don't!

It's the big secret of the snack-food world. People have been killed for revealing it. They are actually made by *loud crash*

Oh crud, they found me! HELP M#*%(&#*# NO CARRIER

Re:mmmmm chips

[jollyreaper]

hell, even doritos make their own chips

Yeah, but their performance makes even Cyrix look good.

Re:mmmmm chips

[Hurricane78]

Yeah. At least Cyrix tastes of *something* (silicon). And they are quite crunchy too.

Mmmhhh... chips...

Re:mmmmm chips

[maxume]

So, going by Futurama, there is some monster living in a cave somewhere, and that monster has delicious, flaky, skin.

Re:Designing chips

[Mad Merlin]

"Even Apple is designing its own chips these days."

Unlike Oracle, I think Apple is traditionally a fashion accessory company.

I wish them the best carrying on the Sun baton.

There, fixed that for you.

Larry Ellison's "oh snap" quote

[Renderer of Evil]

"If a company designs both hardware and software, it can build much better systems than if they only design the software. That's why Apple's iPhone is so much better than Microsoft phones."

Ellison always finds ways to throw tiny daggers at Microsoft.

Re:Larry Ellison's "oh snap" quote

[jsse]

Ellison always finds ways to throw tiny daggers at Microsoft.

Very unwise move when the opponent can throw huge chairs.

Re:Designing chips

[umeboshi]

Would you really consider an Apple II to be a fashion accessory?

Well, maybe the IIc. I remember watching teachers walking around looking smug while carrying those. ;)

Re:Are You Really Prepared for the Hardware Market

[t3chn0n3rd]

WOw, I didnt know oracle was buying Sun. I wonder will this increase oracles usage on Solaris

Re:Designing chips

[Anonymous Coward]

Would you really consider an Apple II to be a fashion accessory?

*dons sunglasses*

Ohhhhh yeah.

Re:Are You Really Prepared for the Hardware Market

[Anonymous Coward]

WOw, I didnt know oracle was buying Sun.

I wonder will this increase oracles usage on Solaris

I'm going to bookmark this thread and reference whenever someone says "there's no such thing as a stupid question."

1. If you scrolled down this far, you would have seen the link to the story about Oracle buying Sun titled "Oracle buys Sun" or any of the dozen related stories on slashdot or other sites including mainstream news.

2. Solaris on SPARC is already the largest base for deployment of Oracle.

I kindly request you change your handle from t3chn0n3rd to something that doesn't imply a familiarity with the technology world.

If you have recently been in a coma I apologize for being so blunt.

Re:Designing chips

[rackserverdeals]

Odd, since Jobs had left the company (ie. been fired) by then.

That's why it was safe to start talking about it.

Re:Yeah, this is pretty much it

[Anonymous Coward]

You hit it in one. IF your company runs Oracle on Red Hat, prepare to get fucked.

If your company decided to run Oracle on RedHat you're already fucked.

Re:Designing chips

[Anonymous Coward]

Would you really consider an Apple II to be a fashion accessory?

Well, maybe the IIc. I remember watching teachers walking around looking smug while carrying those. ;)

That wasn't "looking smug". That's how you look when you have a hernia.