[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <X9980$YvMLkG at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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.

Ummmm....  That boat has sailed, too.  

>    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.

Redhat used to do Sparc.  They dropped it quite some time ago as an
official product.  Who knows, maybe Oracle will jump ship and look at
FreeBSD which does Sparc as well as Intel.  A quick look shows that
FreeBSD Sparc is kept as current as the Intel version.  I doubt the
same can be said for RedHat.

bill


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