[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Neil Rieck]

After Oracle's purchase of Sun, it seems apparant that Oracle is
serious about getting into the enterprise business. (added bonus: many
academic institutions only use Sun; carefully watch the next video
tour of JPL)

Oracle bought RDB from DEC in the 1990s but if OpenVMS is de-
emhpasized by HP then RDB is toast. Maybe HP would let OpenVMS go for
something lower than the often estimated value of $4 billion -IF-
Oracle agreed to buy Itanium hardware from HP for the next 3-5 years.
(hey, who thought Hpq could have been enticed to kill off Alpha?)

Now if I haven't convinced you so far then here is a quote from
Oracle's own web site "Oracle Is the # 1 Business Software Company"
http://www.oracle.com/features/hp/business-software-company.html
Since OpenVMS has always been considered a business OS then having
Oracle acquire the OpenVMS division of HP makes total sense.


Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/