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Oracle To Increase Investment In SPARC and Solaris

Posted by kdawson on from the just-so's-you-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Slashdot community has recently questioned what Oracle will do with Sun hardware if and when Oracle's acquisition of Sun closes. And it seems that speculation about the future of SPARC hardware has been common among Slashdot commenters for years. That said, it seems newsworthy that Oracle is going out of their way with some aggressive marketing directed at IBM to state clearly their plans to put more money than Sun does now into SPARC and Solaris." MySQL is not mentioned in this ad, perhaps because (as Matt Asay speculates) the EU is looking closely into that aspect of the proposed acquisition.

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  1. Re:The cool kids don't care by NoYob · · Score: 5, Funny

    You need to call him "Hillary Clinton's husband" for the young folks to know who you're talking about.

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  2. Re:The cool kids don't care by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linux is running servers bigger than Solaris can handle. Linux is running massive databases in corporations. Linux scales to the small PDA all the way to the world's most powerful supercomputers, Solaris can't do that.

    Not true

    While only 1 of the top 500 is running OpenSolaris (and it's using 2.6Ghz Opterons), still, there is nothing inherently unscalable about Solaris or SPARC. I've personally been logged into a 96 core Sparc machine running Solaris 9 and Oracle 10.

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  3. Openoffice? by lotho+brandybuck · · Score: 5, Interesting
    My biggest concern is what happens with OpenOffice?

    As a Linux-on-desktop user, I am dependent on it. It is a critical ap for me.

    OpenOffice could finally break the hegemony of MS Office, if it's not screwed up. I know a few people who are now using it on Windows, by choice, not necessity. But if it's screwed up, it's over.

    I hope Ellison sees this as his chance to really stick it to Microsoft. I hope he retains and rewards the existing development team, and starts cleaning and optimizing the existing code base, and if needed dedicates additional manpower and resources. I hope Oracle's capable of doing this without screwing it up.