[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
> In article <49ee73b7$0$90266$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/markets/thebuzz/index.htm?postversion=2009042014
>>
>> has some numbers: SW sale is 600 M$ 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.
> 
> Although they talk about Java being their most important software acquisition
> ever.

They now own the Java trademarks and then can speed up Java development
(like Java SE 7 !).

Which is important for a lot of their existing business.

But that is more defensive than offensive play.

I don't think they would that type of money for just that.

>> And besides MySQL does not compete that much with Oracle DB.
>> Different segments.
> 
> I'd heard it was pushing up into the high-end web space, although presumably
> more for things like high-speed display of data (news aggregation, etc) than
> for transaction-dependent things directly involving money.

MySQL show up a lot pf places. It is actually an OK database.

But I still believe that Oracle DB is more competing with
IBM DB2 and MS SQLServer where the big money are.

Arne