[Info-vax] OT: Sun/Oracle - Effect on Hardware Support

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Sun is very complementary to Oracle. There is not much overlap between
> the two.

There is a bit of overlap in the software area.

> Larry Ellison doesn't need this merger to save his career. Ellison is
> already into enterprise business. So this isn't some vanity purchase, I
> think Ellison has plans for Sun within Oracle.

Hm. Considering how fast Oracle made the deal when the IBM-SUN
negotiations did not succeed, then I will consider it likely
that Larry Ellison's desire to become as big as IBM and HP may
indeed have been a driver for the acquisition.

> My guess is that Ellison has had his eyes on a hardware/OS company for
> some time but didn't see an opportunity until now, with Sun cheap enough
> to be purchased.

It was either SUN or Dell.

With SUN he got the Java stuff as icing on the cake.

> There is going to be some serious discussions on the future of Sparc.
> But that would have happened under a standalone Sun anyways. But Sun
> will continue to make servers, no matter what architecture of the CPU.

Yep.

Arne