[Info-vax] Oracle to buy HP ????

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/1/2011 3:09 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<j66nat$qrr$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>
> I just got back from the airport.  Oracle had a "charging station" (not
> sure what for) as an advertisement, claiming 7x faster than HP etc etc.
> Also: 3 billion devices run Java.
>
> Forget the x86.  What about Oracle porting Rdb (and VMS) to Sparc?
>
> If Rdb customers are forced to leave Itanium with no other platform for
> VMS and Rdb in sight, then they very likely will not choose anything
> from HP or Oracle as their next platform: once bitten twice shy.
> They'll probably go to commodity hardware, Linux and MySQL or whatever.
> Loss of revenue for Oracle.  However, a port of VMS and Rdb to Sparc
> would keep a huge fraction of the customer base.  With hardware, OS and
> database all from one place, it might even feel a bit like the good old
> |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| days again.  :-)

Not much point.

SPARC is the next CPU to die after Itanium.

Arne