Re: Oracle to acquire Sun
- From: Mathias Magnusson <mathias.magnusson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:15:26 +0200
Why would it not be the Niagara line of processors? T2 runs databases like a
dream and Oracle gives a very nice discount on the cores you have to
license. In many cases that makes for a fantastic ROI on an extremely potent
database server. It is also where SUN put a lot of R/D dollars over the last
few years. T3 or whatever they'll name the next processor on the same
technology ought to further advance the threads and cores and make it even
more fascinating as a computing platform for Oracle.
Mathias
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Don't forget that Sun ships a lot of x86-64 boxes - I wouldn't be surprised
> if SPARC gets sold off to Fujitsu, who already does the manufacturing and a
> lot of the chip development. Then Oracle/Sun can just OEM fujitsu boxes for
> legacy customers, while migrating them over time to Solaris or Linux on x86.
>
> I feel very confident this will result in solaris x86 becoming a tier 1
> platform for Oracle, though.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Scott Sibert
> Sent: Tue 4/21/2009 11:33 AM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Oracle to acquire Sun
>
> Aurora Linux: old site: http://auroralinux.org/ and newer site:
> http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/
> Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC
>
> The hardware seemed to be the hard part -- booting, video, network, IDE --
> it all seemed unnecessarily difficult on Sparc hardware. I had a couple of
> Suns (a 100 and a U420R) but they were such a pain that I gave up on it.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Stephen Booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
> 2009/4/21 Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Yes, and maybe we will see Linux on Sun.
> >
>
>
> There did used to be a version of Linux for Sun, Mandrake IIRC. I
> did
> run it for a while on an old Sparc20 box but it didn't really have
> any
> apps available so I trashed the box and installed Solaris 9.
>
> I got the impression that it was more for someone who's primary aim
> was to run Linux on Sparc, rather than wanting to do anything
> useful
> with it.
>
> That said, I did setup and attend a presentation by someone from
> SuSE
> (got him to address a local LUG) who said that because of the way
> they
> develop their code it's very easy for them to recompile for
> non-Intel
> platforms. If there is sufficient demand they will produce the
> product. One of the possibilities he cited was Sparc (Power (i.e.
> IBM) was another one). To mis-quote Jim Morrison (in "Wayne's
> World
> 2"): "If you come, they will build it!"
>
> Stephen
>
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> as
> a compliment.
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> as
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