[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <op.usrhoigphv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>,
	"Tom Linden" <tom at kednos.company> writes:
> 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.

Considering that MySQL is open source, how do they control who's hands it
gets into?  And, considering that (once again) the best is not the technical
leader in the open source database world, why would they not be much more
concerned about Postgres which has the potential to actually offer competition
over the long run.

bill

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