RE: Oracle encouraging Linux software developers

They have already ported HPUX to Itanium and are offering servers with it.

Allan

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Patrice

    Brings up an interesting issue. Last info I had, HP wasn't funding a new generation of chips. Instead they seemed to be betting on the Intel Itanium (along with many other vendors). Simple math says that Intel has a lot more money to fund chip development than the Unix vendors, and each new generation of chips requires a magnitude greater investment. Presumably they could port HP/UX to Itanium, but I believe Sun with Solaris is the only firm holdout against Linux. Now, the bigger question, in my mind, is what happened to the Itanium and where does that leave vendors like HP/UX?

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:49 PM
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Interesting... whatever happened to HP/UX?  

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:14 PM
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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
<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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