[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <gsl4ah$2rr$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris <keithparris_nospam at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> Having worked as a consultant in a financial-services firm, about 8-10 
> years ago loyalty for Sun was outweighed by the 10X cost savings of 
> using Linux on commodity hardware. Web servers went to Linux in a flash; 
> Sybase database servers on Sun hung on, but they were a much smaller 
> number of machines.

   In addition, Oracle has been a pretty good supporter of Linux, and I
   expect they will look into Linux as a future for SPARC hardware.
   Since Red Hat has been a pretty good source of Linux support I doubt
   Solaris has any real advantage unless Oracle chooses to give it one.