Re: Oracle to acquire Sun

From: Stephen Booth <stephenbooth.uk_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:10:56 +0100
Message-ID: <687bf9c40904211010s3ee1b761n5151d560baf73bd8_at_mail.gmail.com>

2009/4/20 Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com>:
> wait... didn't Oracle just make an alliance with HP? what about exadata?
> does this mean Oracle will go back to sun? does this mean Solaris won't die?
> I thought IBM was buying sun... that would've been great. They kill off
> solaris and veritas, use tivoli and aix. Aix gets beter compatibility with
> Oracle, SPARC dies off and P6 takes over.

There's a write up in Management Today:
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/899813/will-sun-shine-74bn-oracle-match

Apparentlyt he IBM deal fell through.

Stephen

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