Oracle bought the largest share of their SW customer base who owned Sun HW and then simply jacked up the HW support prices. A very shortsighted strategy indeed....
Further Oracle had already laid plans/direction w.r.t. Linux vs. Solaris x86. Linux already garnered most all of the mind share in the ISV world. Even though Solaris had so much more its hard to fight against the ISV machine and win. That was how SPARC lead for so long.. But SPARC is pretty much dead now... being overrun by Linux/Windows daily....an error of prior leadership@SUNW.... As a Solaris aficionado this was quite sad. As a Sunray aficionado recent news is just horrible.. Chris cskordish at gmail dot com Rodney Sparapani <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 07/17/2013 07:41 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: >snip, snip, snip ... >> Even if Oracle's reasons were monetary, I don't think they >> dumped this direction because it was not profitable - it >> might have been just not ridiculously lucrative, and the >> big corporation does not meddle with small sales. After >> all, some of this list's members, I understand, have thin >> client businesses? Do they at least sustain themselves? ;) >> >> //Jim > >Hi Jim et al. > >The whole thing is mystifying to me. Why pay billions for Sun if you >aren't going to move forward with their tech? As far as I can see, >the only thing that survives is Java, Solaris and SPARC. But, Oracle >could have kept their foot in those for nothing without buying >Sun!?! Certainly, IBM, or whomever, would have kept those going. It >just doesn't make sense ;o( > >-- >Rodney Sparapani, PhD Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research >Sr. Biostatistician http://www.mcw.edu/pcor >4 wheels good, 2 wheels better! Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) >WWLD?: What Would Lombardi Do? Milwaukee, WI, USA >_______________________________________________ >SunRay-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
