that "screwed per core licensing" is what enables oracle to turn huge profits and buy other companies. And oracle's customers are paying up. It's like Cornelius Vanderbilt said, if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
I believe mysql will continue on: after all oracle purchased sleepycat several years ago and it's still open source. More importantly, it also turns a profit. Correction according to a WSJ article on the deal, oracle wanted java, solaris, and mysql. The supposed deal 2 months ago (pre IBM offer) was for oracle to get these 3 software pillars, and HP to get the hardware biz. But sun turned out to be too complex to divvy up. On 4/21/09, thad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
