Yup, ~80% of their customers are on Solaris. I think that pretty much settles it when you think about it. Oracle is in business to make money, not pander to the Linux folks. If their paying customers are on Solaris and they own it, it's the platform of choice, simple as that. Oracle will make more money on selling an integrated software and hardware stack running Solaris on x86 or SPARC than running Unbreakable Linux. It's interesting hearing their marketing droids push for Linux and then have their senior engineers push for Solaris. Main argument being that unless you invest in high-end interconnects like Infiniband, it's cheaper and faster to scale up on Solaris than to scale out on Linux. Last I heard, Oracle still runs its own ERP system on E25k's.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Orvar Korvar <knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:23:32 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? Also, Ellisson said something about Oracle having more Solaris installations than Linux installations. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
