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Enterprise software giant Oracle has swooped for Sun Microsystems after IBM pulled out of acquisition.
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Enterprise software giant Oracle has swooped for Sun Microsystems after IBM pulled out of acquisition.
I take it Oracle's CEO has never actually tried using any of their software then... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Oracle CEO
Interesting acquisition can’t really see what they are going to do with it…
Make Oracle only run on Sun hardware? :p Would be a great move for Microsoft if they did heheQuote:
Originally Posted by Singh400
They will probably try and push the hardware with the software now - citing tighter integration and better support or something similar.
Wave goodbye to MySql...
Not necessarily - it is open source - there is nothing to stop the developers from developing it and to offer (paid for) support. It might falter for a while, but I doubt it will go away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
Still have a soft spot for "Sun" (having been working on Solaris for the best part of the last 10 years) so happy to see that they have found a "suitor" now.
Have to say though that their hardware although reliable, even on non sparc systems always seems to come at a premium.
Be interesting to see how they start to market themselves now.
TBH we've had nothing but failure issues with both modern AMD64 Sunfires, and classic big bastard SPARC boxes
I'm supporting a big bunch of Sun kit at the moment, running Solaris 10. It's a LOT better than it used to be. Hopefully ZFS will be relicensed into the Open Source community.
I used to hate it, but now it's not so bad... Just gotta treat it nice and it'll treat you nice! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
At least Solaris 10 has begun to SLOWLY replace the culture of "retarded by default because of tradition" that's always done my head in.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiggerai
/bin/sh as default editor? /bin/ed as default editor? Why bother even turning up if you're gonna play silly buggers?
It's the stupid keyboard layout that gets me. Absolutely criminal.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex