I'm beginning to get a hunch why Oracle is mum about OpenSolaris. Can't stop the sinking ship
"Oracle needs to make Sun's once-dominant UNIX server business a success to justify the $7.4 billion price tag attached to the acquisition. Critics of the deal noted from the start that this wouldn't be easy, given the steady market-share declines that proprietary UNIX systems had been seeing over the past decade at the hands of cheaper systems running Linux and Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows, and powered by Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Xeon and AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron processors." http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/05/28/the-sun-isnt-shining-for-oracle.aspx "Like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, or IBM freezing development of their respective Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX platforms. It is not hard to imagine Oracle or IBM selling off their server businesses to focus on software and services, either, letting someone else do the engineering and design and designating them as hardware resellers and operating system developers. If the economy had gotten truly bad enough - or takes a double dip - you can bet a money-losing Oracle or IBM hardware business would be put up on the auction block." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/idc_q1_2010_server_nums/ And it seems Oracle is about to kill SUN servers running AMD CPUs http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/oracle_spikes_opterons/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
