[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Tom Linden]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:20:31 -0700, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca>  
wrote:

> 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/

I don't think Oraclew bought sun to get into the server business, and I  
expect they
may sell that off.  They were onlyt interested in seeing that MySQL didn't  
get into the
wrong hands.


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