Goodbye Sun Microsystems :(

I guess we, Sun people, will miss the website:

take a look at Sun website now:

Oracle 11g, Siebel, PeopleSoft | Oracle, Software. Hardware. Complete.

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dynamik

At least they put it above Linux in the list

UnixGuy

looks like we need to get used to the term "Oracle Solaris" !!!!!

Oracle Solaris Operating System

tiersten

UnixGuy wrote: »

looks like we need to get used to the term "Oracle Solaris" !!!!!

Oracle Solaris Operating System

Ewwwwww. End of an era.

Hmm... Are any of the big *NIX companies around apart from IBM now? I've no idea who even owns SGI but their machines are Itanium/Xeon now anyway. Compaq is HP now and their servers are all x86/x64 as well.

UnixGuy

tiersten wrote: »

Ewwwwww. End of an era.

Hmm... Are any of the big *NIX companies around apart from IBM now? I've no idea who even owns SGI but their machines are Itanium/Xeon now anyway. Compaq is HP now and their servers are all x86/x64 as well.

IBM is the biggest. Novel ==> SUSSE, Red Hat ==> Red Hat...HP UX is there...and now Oracle.

disi

UnixGuy wrote: »

looks like we need to get used to the term "Oracle Solaris" !!!!!

Oracle Solaris Operating System

I don't understand the politics behind this

They actually bought the brand, why do they now rename all the stuff?

There are still a few links called Sun Server etc. I would just keep the name Sun for all the known stuff...

Just looked that up:
AIX - blades can be bought with Intel chipset
HP - all the "bigger" Servers don't use Intel
Sun/Oracle Server - still both

binarysoul

Very bad acquistion IMO.

UnixGuy

binarysoul wrote: »

Very bad acquistion IMO.

We sure hope it's a good acquisition. Oracle has much more customers than Sun and is better in marketing than Sun. Let's wait and see what'll happen in the next two yrs.

rfult001

At least I can still find the JDK and all that fun stuff at java.sun.com

tiersten

rfult001 wrote: »

At least I can still find the JDK and all that fun stuff at java.sun.com

Maybe Oracle will unbundle that stupid Yahoo toolbar from the JRE install >< I know it prompts before installing but its still annoying!

UnixGeek

UnixGuy wrote: »

We sure hope it's a good acquisition. Oracle has much more customers than Sun and is better in marketing than Sun. Let's wait and see what'll happen in the next two yrs.

I hope so too. I would have preferred to see IBM gobble up Sun, but someone had to before they drove themselves out of business.

It'll be interesting to see what happens on the MySQL front.