RE: Oracle buying Sun...

Sure they did...you can say JDE...Lawson perhaps...but like all the other
major IBM vendors on AS/400....They're all preferring a unix and Oracle
environment now and shunning AS/400 as a preferred platform of
development....

Interesting eh?



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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 8:28 PM
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Subject: RE: Oracle buying Sun...

Hi Don

I can just see Oracle positioning this as a turnkey database appliance: buy
a database and we'll sort out the iron for you, in fact, we'll organize the
OS and file system for you - do everything from the DB.

Interesting that in some respects you can see that their ERP stack might
turn out to be the direct opposite of SAP's in the longer term. Buy an ERP
and we'll tell you what database and hardware you need to run it best as
opposed to the database/hardware agnostic model of SAP (well, kinda).

IBM had one of those way before anyone else - can you say JDE on AS/400 ?

Regards
Evan Harris

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2009 9:33 a.m.
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Oracle buying Sun...

Frankly, I think this is an incredibly bright move on Oracle's part, and
going to cost IBM big time in terms of AIX sales. Keep in mind, Oracle is
basically the biggest single bizneeeeze pudnuh that IBM has in the pSeries
space. So, now that they will own Sun, what need to they have in the future
for AIX or pSeries????



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.. :-)



JHMO



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