Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware"

Posted by timothy on Friday April 9, 2010 @12:37PM from the well-and-the-awesome-logo dept.

blackbearnh writes "Brian Aker, former Sun MySQL guy, and current proponent of the Drizzle MySQL fork, gave O'Reilly Radar an update on where MySQL is at the moment. During the interview, he was asked to speculate on Oracle's original motives for acquiring Sun. 'IBM has been moving their pSeries systems into datacenter after datacenter, replacing Sun-based hardware. I believe that Oracle saw this and asked themselves, "What is the next thing that IBM is going to do?" That's easy. IBM is going to start pushing DB2 and the rest of their software stack into those environments. Now whether or not they'll be successful, I don't know. I suspect once Oracle reflected on their own need for hardware to scale up on, they saw a need to dive into the hardware business. I'm betting that they looked at Apple's margins on hardware, and saw potential in doing the same with Sun's hardware business. I'm sure everything else Sun owned looked nice and scrumptious, but Oracle bought Sun for the hardware.'"

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Damn you slashdot by Anarki2004 · 2010-04-09 12:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Error 503 everwhere I go!

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Re:Oracle might have already lost by wmac · 2010-04-09 22:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You proved my point being a rude and impolite person. The words you refer to me are MOST LIKELY describe yourself better than me.

Besides, you have eye sight problem. Otherwise the word "likely" means the same as those words you mentioned.