James Cornell wrote:
anywhere, but I expect SPARC to get canned since Oracle has no hardware experience. It wouldn't surprise me if Oracle cut 16,000 of Sun's remaining employees loose YTD.
I think if Oracle is wise it will leave Sun mostly alone to run it business. Oracle and Solaris SPARC is a big money spinner and I do not see it going at all (we may even get a Solaris X64 version now). We all know that Solaris and OpenSolaris would eventually be combined back into the 1 O/S it was just a matter of when it was going to happen (after Solaris 10 or after Solaris 11) since the cost of support 2 O/S is very expensive. That process may be brought forward now.
The only question I have is what will happen to the Sun databases postgres and MySQL. I guess the die hard fans of MySQL will create there own break away version. It would be a great shame if Oracle killed MySQL off since it is the database of choice for the small user and web. I am a heavy Oracle user and I would hate to go back to it for the small applications, plus I would not afford the hardware upgrades. (MySQL run on any size m/c, Oracle runs on expensive beast).
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