Five Years After the Sun Merger, Oracle Says It's Fully Committed To SPARC

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 12, 2015 @07:57AM from the wish-they'd-bring-back-the-sun-name dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Sun Microsystems vanished into Oracle's maw five years ago this month, and you could be forgiven for thinking that some iconic Sun products, like SPARC chips, had been cast aside in the merger. But Oracle claims that the SPARC roadmap is moving forward more quickly than it did under Sun, and while the number of SPARC systems sold has dropped dramatically (from 66,000 in Q1 '03 to 7,000 in Q1 '14), the systems that are being sold are fully customized and much more profitable for the company."

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Re:IBM should submit some by Ravaldy · 2015-02-12 09:58 · Score: -1, Flamebait

My experience with free software is that when shit hits the fan you are on your own. This isn't true of all free software since I believe MySQL provides commercial services to businesses. At the end of the day, databases can be transferred fairly easily over to another product. Is it a lot of work? Sure but at least the freedom you require is always there.