You can migrate to Power6 platform but beware of the screwed Oracle per core license pricing. If you think of going HP-UX, then might as well go to any Intel or Opteron platform.
Woody Allen - "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/woody_allen.html On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:06 PM, andrelst <[email protected]> wrote: > Good question. Mr. Ellison has stated he wants primarily Solaris and Java. > > This means it might happen that SUN Hardware (T1/T2 ultrasparcs are > lovely CPU though.) can be killed by low revenue and the X86 HW > commodity movement on the server market like an unstoppable train. On > the other hand, hardware+software is almost double pure profit. > > What I really would like to see is this. A chance for Oracle to > trickle down technologies from OpenSolaris to Linux or even merge them > altogether. ZFS/Dtrace in Linux? > > regards, > Andre | http://www.varon.ca > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM, thad <[email protected]> wrote: >> Will Oracle be interested with Sun hardware, or its just buy and kill >> acquisition? >> >> On 4/20/09, andrelst <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think some guy on Oracle got wind of the topic about Oracle and >>> MySQL discussed here in PLUG last month. And he thought... why don't >>> we buy SUN to end this? :) >>> >>> regards, >>> Andre | http://www.varon.ca >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Alexander Panganiban Santiago >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > i suggest they read first the "50 things to know ... " thread on PLUG. >>> > >>> > :) >>> > >>> > peace.. >>> > >>> > Ariz Jacinto wrote: >>> >> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246 >>> >> >>> >> say hello to percona :-D >>> _________________________________________________ >>> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >>> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >>> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
