So your interpretation would be: Oracle is not so much pushing Linux at the
expense of Microsoft, but ensuring their dominance in the emerging Linux
database market. Though of course a strong Linux market will also be a
market in which presumably Microsoft will not try to compete with Oracle,
unless Microsoft decides to port SQL Server to Linux.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
>
> Jacques - We often don't realize that at end-user sites we look at the
> immediate computer marketplace. Any vendor that did that
> would be out of
> business in a couple of years. A vendor, like Oracle, must
> predict where the
> the market will be in a couple of years. About two years ago
> the META Group
> predicted that in about 5 years most servers sold would be
> running one of
> three operating systems:
> 1. Windows
> 2. Linux
> 3. Solaris
>
> As near as I can tell, they are on the mark. The other Unix
> vendors are
> showing signs of shifting to Linux. Obviously they won't announce that
> directly since they need to keep selling computers today.
> From Oracle's point of view, they don't care who is the
> winner, just
> that Oracle is the leading database, and not something like MySQL.
> ...
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