RE: Oracle buying Sun...

<<Gates & his Microsoft Fortune$ are forever thankful>>

I got to fly over his 60,000 square foot house last weekend. The convoluted
design reminded me somewhat of his operating system(s).

:-))

Paul Nelson
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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.. :-)

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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