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RE: Oracle buying Sun...



Don wrote:

Oh this is going to be interesting as IBM allows the iSeries to continue
down it's IBM imposed legacy abandonment path, I would expect to see pSeries
sales level and drop off, especially those running Oracle in the near
future, and Oracle's sales continue to improve. Now, Oracle can be one stop
shopping.hardware, database and applications.

Maybe IBM will wake up and realize just how much of a good system they have
in iSeries and start getting serious about it again..nah, that's just
dreaming.. :-)




Don -



To use a somewhat technical term coined by Tom Wolfe in his book 'The Right Stuff', I believe that by /not/ buying Sun that IBM....



'Screwed The Pooch'! ;-D



- sjl



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