[geeks] Tim Oren on Oracle - Sun

[Lionel Peterson]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> On Apr 21, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> According to Oracle's own presentation at the investor meeting, I
>>> highlighted here a few points from their powerpoint:
>>>
>>> -Optimize Solaris and Oracle for better performance, reliability,
>>> and
>>> manageability
>>> -Protects massive customer investment in SPARC
>>> -Open Storage built with industry standard servers and components
>>> -Expands Oracles range of products, including servers and storage
>>> -Sustain Solaris as an industry standard OS for Oracle software
>>
>> Well honestly, what else can they say?
>>
>> - we plan to bury MySQL, there's no money in 'free' RDBMS
>
> They will sell support licenses that are 50% of the price of Oracle
> licenses, making Oracle look like a "better" choice as Oracle has
> more stuff
>
>> - we will cease all work on Solaris in favor of _________
>
> They may keep Solaris around.  Now that OpenSolaris is out, there is
> not
> much they can do to keep that genie in the box.
>
> They could try to tie Oracle sales into Solaris support sales.  I
> wonder
> if Solaris 10 Update 7 will be a free download as before?
>
>> - we will cap UltraSPARC development, in favor of commodity boxes
>
> They will increase SPARC prices, because those users are a captive
> market, if they haven't migrated already they are not able to
>
> Alternatively they could try to go for volume and end up fighting AMD
> for second place...

Patrick,

All those are possible/likely, but my point was they would never *say*
those things...