seph wrote: > Chris Hoogendyk <[email protected]> writes: > > >> If you are looking that route, you should also at least take a look at >> the Sun 7000 series storage servers. It is said that they beat NetApp on >> price, on performance, on flexibility, and on ease of implementation. Of >> course, you have to evaluate those claims and make the decision for >> yourself. >> > > I'm not sure what's going to happen to this now that its oracle's. I > think it's going to take a couple of years before I'm convinced oracle > won't can it.
Oracle has deeper pockets than Sun had. They have said many many times that they intend to spend more on development of Solaris and related technologies than Sun was spending. Even before the merger, the two had joint projects that put Oracle on Sun hardware with Sun systems support and claimed higher database performance than competing products. Oracle has put ads in the Wall Street Journal and other places announcing that they will support and develop Sun technologies. They recently began running ads on NPR (they're slightly different -- sponsorship -- brief text read by NPR employee) touting Oracle as now being "Hardware, Software, Complete". The ads make space to mention Sun servers and Oracle middleware even though they are limited to a couple of sentences. Storage is a big area, and it is important to Oracle as much or more than it was to Sun. By having an in to that market that also serves their Oracle database product, they have more control of setting up a complete system for a client and not having to share a piece of the sale with their competition. I don't think I'm going to worry about them dropping things. A major point of the acquisition was to gain an edge in competing against companies such as IBM (and not have the IBM salesman in there with the hardware whispering about DB2). I wasn't happy to see Sun bought out. But, better by Oracle than by IBM. I can't see any rationale for IBM to have maintained Sun products. It seems like that would have been a case of buying out the competition and squashing them. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
