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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. The Oracle ECLIPSED The SUN! by itsybitsy · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Oracle ECLIPSED The SUN! He he... "Oracle bought Sun for the hardware." Good news, Java is likely doomed as a result! Bye bye Java. Now on the Blackberry front with RIM buying QNX to battle Apple Java OS will be doomed too. Opportunity rising for other cutting edge languages. [:)]

  2. stupid morons. sun hasn't been relevant for years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    sun hardware has underperformed comparable ibm hardware by an astonishing factor of at least 2 for the past 5 or so years. the hardware is literally a joke in the industry. anyone not aware of that is basically a kid in college or someone who never had the pleasure of working with both systems simultaneously. oracle is trying to take over the database market, free included, plain and simple.

  3. Re:How does this make sense? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nobody wants sun hardware aside from internet startups (whoops, guess thats why the stock went to hell) and dumb companies who literally do not know any better. period. it's complete garbage.

  4. Re:Oracle might have already lost by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those who have selected proprietary OS will replace it with another proprietary one.

    So twenty years ago Linux had zero percent of the server market, still has zero percent, and will always have zero percent?

    We were using HP-UX and Solaris. When we decided to use an open source OS for a particular server farm we selected Linux

    Contradict yourself much?

    I have been an IT manager in a bank

    Well thankfully you aren't any more.

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