Oracle buys Sun

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http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363

Whether its better or worse than IBM - I don't know ...

Edit: seems like Oracle cannot build webserver - pretty much overloaded .. here the Sun website bit :)

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
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  • UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
    Oh crap...

    I don't know what to expect, but there's one thing I can talk about here ! Sun Cluster with Oracle RAC is an unbreakable combination that gives the 100% up time guarantee.


    Maybe now we as Sun support will have to be Oracle DBAs ! icon_sad.gif
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  • bertiebbertieb Member Posts: 1,031 ■■■■■■□□□□
    UnixGuy wrote:

    Maybe now we as Sun support will have to be Oracle DBAs ! icon_sad.gif

    That's funny. One of our Oracle DBA's just read the announcement and said 'Errr, does that mean I'll have to support Solaris now?'
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  • UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,570 Mod
    The responses now are ok here.


    you know, it's much better than if IBM bought, because now Hardware don't need to be changed. We also used to suffer when upgrading from one sun server to another, because the more CPU cores you have, you have to pay more for Oracle License. So it was kind of ridiculous to convince a customer who bought a new hardware to pay again for Oracle license.


    So Solaris and Sun servers are (hopefully!) safe...
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  • Daniel333Daniel333 Member Posts: 2,077 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Wow, I wonder how this impacts the Oracle's relationship with RedHat now that they own Solaris.
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  • dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Daniel333 wrote: »
    Wow, I wonder how this impacts the Oracle's relationship with RedHat now that they own Solaris.

    As well as the future of MySQL...
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  • msteinhilbermsteinhilber Member Posts: 1,480 ■■■■■■■■□□
    dynamik wrote: »
    As well as the future of MySQL...

    I'm sure that Oracle is at least smart enough to understand just how expansive MySQL is... at least you would hope.

    Here's one analysts view on it:
    Analysts: Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership
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  • JDMurrayJDMurray Admin Posts: 13,089 Admin
    MySQL is still available under terms of the GNU General Public License and will live on. The future of the company MySQL AB and its support of MySQL itself is more of where my concern lies.

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  • motogpmanmotogpman Member Posts: 412
    Count yer blessings. As a former employee of IBM, they are more screwed up and living off the "IBM compat" reputation than anything. After 2 years working for that shithole, they art leat taught me about the corporate BS "white shirt and tie" BS that still exists there. And to think, my dad, who worked for them in CA for years warned me...... when will we ever really listen to our parents. LOL.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    motogpman wrote: »
    Count yer blessings. As a former employee of IBM, they are more screwed up and living off the "IBM compat" reputation than anything. After 2 years working for that shithole, they art leat taught me about the corporate BS "white shirt and tie" BS that still exists there. And to think, my dad, who worked for them in CA for years warned me...... when will we ever really listen to our parents. LOL.

    LOL - I walked out of IBM within one week of working there (in Ireland though). Although the same *sh*thole comment" applies to Intel and Dell. All three companies could kiss my a*ss ... Got "headhunted" into all three of them and said after a week "f** that" :p
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