On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does anyone believe that Oracle's acquisition of Sun is a good thing?
> MySQL is one of the most profitable segments of sun. Really? In monetary terms? Then - believe it or not - SPARC servers are a 100 times more profitable segment on Sun's balance sheet.. > Yes it competes > against oracle databases, but it's not within realistic limitations to force > mysql deployments to "upgrade" to oracle. So I don't think they'll change a > thing. They'll let MySQL continue to pull in the money, and sit back saying > "Now we're the undisputed largest most powerful database company in the > world." > > Obviously java is here to stay. > > Long story short, I don't see oracle killing off any of sun products, except > maybe some of the lesser known more obscure things ... Glassfish? > Virtualbox? > > Not sure about openoffice... VirtualBox, OpenOffice, even Glassfish - you call them "unknowns" ??? That's an interesting analysis. I believe a lot of folks are aware of them, maybe more than those who have any understanding for what the term "OpenSolaris" might mean, unfortunately. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
