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Oracle Ends Partnership With HP
Rambo Tribble writes "As detailed in a Reuters report, Oracle is terminating their cooperative relationship with HP in light of their anticipated acquisition of Sun. With Sun servers in house, Oracle apparently feels no need to work with HP anymore. They will 'continue to sell the Exadata computers, built in partnership with HP, until existing inventory is sold out, if customers request that model.' Oracle is much more enthusiastic about a new version of Exadata, which they developed with Sun."
Corporate officers have a fiduciary responsibility to not sign any deal unless they are making a ton of cash off of it, so why would Oracle ever expect HP to not be making a ton of cash? Yes, the purchase of Sun might be motivated by wanting to keep more of that cash for themselves, but again, that is just good business practice.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Why should the FTC get involved? Where is the anticompetitive issue?
Oracle is anticipating that they will acquire Sun.
Sun is a competitor of HP.
Oracle originally worked with HP, but now they are going to work with Sun (or in-house if the aquisition goes forward) because they developed what they think is a better product in conjunction with Sun.
What is the FTC going to do - force Oracle to continue to do buisness with only HP to sell a product that they dont want to sell?
There is nothing to see here.
1331461 is only semiprime *sigh* Alas - I am just short of 1337.
They need to produce an ultra-reliable appliance which runs Oracle -- Ugly as HP is, they had a partnership which delivered that in a unit.
Now they have the Exadata box with Sun chips, as of September 15 (press release). I for one (if I were spending such money) would want to wait a year before buying one of those.
I'm much happier with Sparc than PA-RISC, but HP makes things which just WORK. Sun has been known to roll out boxes with odd behavior. I'll need to see people very happy with their Exadata boxes for a while before I buy one.
Perhaps Oracle feels (perhaps rightly) that people will be forced to buy whatever they say. Period. And so they can push through a beta-ish time on this new equipment using their customers as guinea pigs.
It just seems wiser to co-exist for a while, then terminate the arrangement. But then Oracle has always been about squeezing people's testicles more than about being wise.
How is it anti-competitive for a software company to start manufacturing it's own hardware too ?
It's the same thing Apple has been doing for 20 years, and no one blinks an eyelid.