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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/1/2011 3:43 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>

And the X86 family will be the solution to all problems!  Right!!!!