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Re:Sun/Oracle removed public firmware downloads by viraptor on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @05:51AM (#1320741)
Wait - you don't associate Oracle with a behemoth? You know they target large corporations and will happily recommend you to buy a cluster of 64GB 8+ core machines, right? Have a look at validated configurations... I can think of only one larger database company, but they design stuff for you from scratch.
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Re:Sun/Oracle removed public firmware downloads by pilib on Thursday May 06, 2010 @01:31PM (#1324938)
heh, I do actually, maybe I should have phrased it better ;).

My point was, Sun was trying to be a hip and modern company, open sourcing a lot of their work, and then Oracle bought them and in the best impersonation of Eric Cartman, just said "you damn hippies" :), and fucked all that effort up.

I did expect it to happen, but I'm still sad it did happen.

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