An interesting article in InfoWorld. Ellison is making outrageous statements, as usual, but I'm wondering just what implications they might have in terms of Oracle support for its products on non-Intel platforms.
'Oracle is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel servers running Linux, Oracle Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said Wednesday. He also predicted the "inevitable" demise of large servers systems, exposing a potential conflict of interest with longtime ally Sun Microsystems.' '"We'll be on Linux no later than the summer, so we'll be running our whole business on Linux," he said.' '"It will be several years before the big machine dies," he said, "but inevitably the big machine will die."' http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/31/020131hnlarrye.xml Mark Post
