RE: Oracle buying Sun...

[Glenn Ericson <glenn-ericson@xxxxxxx>]

IBM  did  not do well in  in the 1970's 
turning  Bill Gates and  his  PC software and products.

Gates &  his  Microsoft  Fortune$ are  forever thankful


At 07:43 PM 4/20/2009, sjl wrote:


> 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.. :-)
>
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> Don -
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> 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
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>
> - sjl
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