[geeks] Tim Oren on Oracle - Sun

[Brooke Gravitt]

Bah! Have analysts learned nothing? Have they not seen the size of Ellison's
boat? Where there is money to be made ( Java, Solaris, HW, mySQL ) there
exist products and services to be sold. Seriously, if IBM ended up with Sun,
sure - too much overlap. But Oracle? Come on - now they're strolling up to
IBM & HP territory. They're building a whole-widget solution. With mValent
Integrity purchase back in January to augment Grid Control they've
more-or-less completed the build of a Data Center Automation suite to
compete with HP BTO stack and IBM's TADDM/CCMDB/ITCAM stack. Couple that
with Oracle + mySQL covering a huge percentage of the landscape for DB and
you are looking at some major revenue streams. Why kill that?
I can see the maintenance costs going through the roof and services
increasing, but in the long run now there is now one more big player out
there. It'll foster a bit of innovation and competition amongst everyone
else, which is a good thing.

But, really, who knows?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/orcl-java-ibm-java.html
>
> His conclusion is that Sun's server line and Solaris will linger then
> die, Java's future is iffy, mySQL has conflicts with existing Oracle
> products.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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> Brian Dunbar
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