Re: Oracle buying Sun...

[Sarah Poger Gladstone <listmember@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you think Oracle will do with MySQL?  Also what will happen to
the IBM project to have a DB2 storage engine for MySQL on the AS/400
and other DB2 platforms?

-Sarah



On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Pat Barber
<mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah... I can just see the fear over at the IBM now...
>
> Nathan Andelin
>
> 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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