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From: Evan Harris
I can just see Oracle positioning this as a turnkey database
appliance ...
Your thinking seems to be inline with Oracle's. Quoting from the press release on their web site:
"The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle
database, Oracleâs largest business, and has been for a long time. With
the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for
some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris."
Their statement concerning Java also struck me:
"Java is ... the most important software
Oracle has ever acquired."
They also included a statement from Scott McNealy.
âThis combination ... will be an industry-defining event.â
It appears to me that the suits at Oracle and Sun are positioning themselves as a formidable rivals of IBM. There seems to be quite a bit of chatter saying that IBM must be kicking themselves.
Oracle ends up with a complete hardware-software stack; chips=>servers=>operating systems=>virtual machines=>developer languages & tools=>DBMS=>applications=>consulting ...
Nathan.
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