04.20.09
The Positive Thing About Oracle Buying Sun and Its Bundle:
LARRY ELLISON hates Microsoft.
We shall live and see. There is already plenty of coverage and analysis out there. █
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LARRY ELLISON hates Microsoft.
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the11thplague said,
April 20, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Nice finding. Let’s hope Oracle will continue all the great open source projects Sun started. At least it will stay far from Microsoft.
Roy Bixler said,
April 20, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Frankly, I see this move as an attempt to preserve the status quo. Oracle perceived a threat if IBM would have bought Sun, which had been a steadfast partner with Oracle. The most interesting question is “what will happen to MySQL?”, which earlier Oracle had been accused of making moves to marginalise even though the threat posed by MySQL was fairly minimal due to the fact that MySQL is not really an enterprise level database as is Oracle.
Also, Larry Ellison hates Microsoft more out of envy than out of any ideological reasons. If Bill Gates and Larry Ellison traded positions, would Microsoft behave any better? I have my doubts.
The Mad Hatter said,
April 21, 2009 at 2:50 am
MySQL is fine – there is a community version, I think it’s called MariaDB, which Oracle can’t touch. Thank god for the GPL.
As to the deal itself, I don’t know whether I like it or not. Every merger hurts the market (less competition). On the other hand, Sun has been in bad shape for years, and the purchase by Oracle will ensure that some of Sun’s technology will survive. The question is will Oracle continue to support Sun hardware, particularly Sparc? IBM probably wouldn’t have continued Sparc, as it competes with Power. The issue as I see it is that we have lost a lot of chip technology in the last ten years. Alpha is dead. PA-RISC is dead. Itanium is on life support, if not actually dead. 68000 is dead.
It’s a pity, because some of those chips had some damned nice features.
Roy Bixler Reply:
April 21st, 2009 at 7:01 am
I am well aware that Oracle can’t eliminate MySQL entirely because it is licenced under the GPL. If it were proprietary software, they could eliminate it and perhaps wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation. My concern was centered on what happens to commercially supported MySQL and my hope would be that they see that they can make money with it and that it doesn’t hurt their flagship database much, so they will continue with it. Otherwise, due to the open source nature of MySQL, there also wouldn’t be anything to prevent someone else from taking over the MySQL support business.
Yuhong Bao said,
May 5, 2009 at 9:41 am
“LARRY ELLISON hates Microsoft.”
Yep, they once hired IGI to do dumpster diving, which uncovered several MS front groups, many of which was discussed on Boycott Novell.
Roy Schestowitz Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Do you have more information about that? I’d be interested.
Yuhong Bao Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,49039,00.html
http://money.cnn.com/2000/06/28/technology/oracle/
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-96149.html
Yuhong Bao Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Some links on this:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,49039,00.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-96149.html
Roy Schestowitz Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Thanks. This just shows how Washington is corrupt beyond repair.
Yuhong Bao said,
May 6, 2009 at 1:51 am
“This just shows how Washington is corrupt beyond repair. ”
Well, I would not go that far, but that is another off-topic mess entirely.