Re:Oracle to buy Sun
by sethg on Monday April 20, 2009 @09:45AM
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Wouldn't other hardware vendors be more interested in supporting PostgreSQL now? Before the acquisition, if you bought a big HP database server, HP had no reason to care which database software you ran on it. Now, HP would prefer that you not be directing your software-purchase money to one of HP's competitors.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun
by bensummers on Monday April 20, 2009 @09:49AM
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Amusingly, before they bought MySQL, Sun were the biggest PostgreSQL supporters. They still employ the key contributors!
Sun employes one member of the core team (Peter Eisentraut) and some other people who contribute patches, but that's it.
And actually, I forgot that Peter E. left Sun a few weeks ago anyway:
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/03/sun-set-part-2.h...
I'm thinking Oracle/Sun will eventually end up in HP's hands.
Re:Oracle to buy Sun
by falsestprophet on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:36AM
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Why? Oracle has a larger market capitalization than HP: ~90 billion vs. 84.
Because Oracle and HP are already tight partners and analysts refer to them as essentially one entity against IBM. Plenty of people expect the Sun hardware line to die or get sold to HP, while Oracle keeps the software line.
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6606-0-0-225-121....
Re:Oracle to buy Sun
by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @04:31PM
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Now that it has aqcuired Sun, it can make those Exadata appliances itself, without HP. That's basically what Oracle said they were going to do today.
Re:Oracle to buy Sun
by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:38AM
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How will that work? Oracle's market cap is higher than HP's.