[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Tom Linden wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/markets/thebuzz/index.htm?postversion=2009042014

has some numbers: SW sale is 600 M$ out of 12.4 B$ total sale.

You do not pay 7.4 B$ to acquire 600 M$ in annual sale. They
want the server business.

And besides MySQL does not compete that much with Oracle DB.
Different segments.

Arne