Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM

Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by tsally on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:41AM (#815210)

I really want to know what Orcale's real plan is. Before the acquisition they have to have figured out some way to reconcile Oracle Linux and Solaris, I just wish I knew what it was. No matter how you slice it, they are competing products in a very similar space. I suppose they could continue to develop both separately and take advantage of having two brands.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by mapleoin on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:23AM (#815409)

Oracle isn't really developing Oracle Linux since that's just RHEL. All they do is provide support.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by nailer on Thursday September 10, 2009 @01:25PM (#815700)

They're developing part of the kernel, which will be included in future RHEL releases. They also have people working on Spacewalk and Xen too IIRC.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by nailer on Friday September 11, 2009 @03:35AM (#817007)

And Systemtap, which is a fairly important part of both RHEL and OEL I forgot to add.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by uobubu on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:53AM (#815228)

Not necessarily - the could have simply worried about their customers on Sparc falling into the hands of IBM/HP salesmen with DB2/SQLServer salesmen in tow.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by tsally on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:42AM (#815322)

Right, but I expected them to slowly phase Sparc and Solaris out, and offer their existing Sparc customers discounts to upgrade.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by pyre on Thursday September 10, 2009 @04:08PM (#816073)

Not necessarily. It's not like IBM doesn't sell x86 processor systems along with their POWER (and Cell?) processor systems.

Oracle will probably package their own hardware by leveraging Sun's resources. You will probably be able to purchase a Sun-Oracle SPARC system and have a choice of Solaris or Linux (which also runs on SPARC) to run your Oracle database on. Otherwise you can run Oracle on Linux if you aren't buying into their integrated hardware solutions. I don't see how they would have to drop everything without being able to make it work together.

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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by Tamerlin on Friday September 11, 2009 @02:35PM (#817834)

That's true, IBM is still one of Intel's biggest server OEM's world wide.

Personally, I think that SPARC will end up getting buried by Itanium and POWER, which will in turn get overwhelmed by Opteron and Xeon. :)

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