Re: Oracle to acquire Sun

  • From: Stephen Booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:10:56 +0100

2009/4/20 Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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