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

[MG]

On 1-10-2011 21:09, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.  <--- (How does this relate to VMS
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       or SPARC even?)

> Forget the x86.  What about Oracle porting Rdb (and VMS) to Sparc?
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                             ^^^      ^^^  ^^^^^^^^

You're not sure what you saw, but you're convinced nonetheless...?


> 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.

Not if managers are constantly told that 'Oracle [RDBMS] is the best
out there,' then you'll basically get the same situation as with MS:
A de facto monopoly which by sheer frequency and familiarity thereof
is somehow justified.


> They'll probably go to commodity hardware, Linux and MySQL or whatever.

If anything should've given anyone a good 'bite' as of late, it are all
the SQL injection hacks as of late (where in nearly all cases MySQL
seemed to have been involved).  You can blame it on 'bad' CMS and web
design, but it still stands out and we all know how 'managers' all too
often tend to look at things.


> Loss of revenue for Oracle.

How is that when they can basically pull the plug on the license of
MySQL whenever they wish to do so?


> 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.

Will it truly, with the prospects of losing the Hobbyist Program?  (If
Oracle should indeed come to own VMS... I hope not!)

  - MG