Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM
by uobubu on Thursday September 10, 2009 @09:53AM
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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
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Right, but I expected them to slowly phase Sparc and Solaris out, and offer their existing Sparc customers discounts to upgrade.
Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM
by pyre on Thursday September 10, 2009 @04:08PM
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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.
Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM
by Tamerlin on Friday September 11, 2009 @02:35PM
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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. :)