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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by mghackerlady on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:04PM (#47591229)
maybeeee SPARC based Solaris? Probably not a major usecase nowadays (Oracle bought Sun for Java, not for Sun) but it seems to be limping along
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by andyjohnson0 on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:35PM (#47591589)
> Oracle bought Sun for Java, not for Sun

My recollection is that they also qanted Sun's storage hardware products, to sell alongside their existing DB software.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by mghackerlady on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:23PM (#47616552)
that was also a reason, but you can't convince me Oracle wasn't primarily in it for Java
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