Comments on: Sun gets its knight in shining armor after all http://www.formortals.com/sun-gets-its-knight-in-shining-armor-after-all/ Because technology isn't just for geeks Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: jmjames http://www.formortals.com/sun-gets-its-knight-in-shining-armor-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1464 jmjames Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:44:07 +0000 http://www.formortals.com/?p=177#comment-1464 It's an interesting match. I agree that Oracle is a much better buyer than IBM; IBM basically would have been buying the engineering teams, the Java stuff, maybe roll some of the Solaris stuff into AIX, and thrown the rest away. It would have been a total asset stripping of a company with a lot of history. On the other hand, Oracle is the least imaginative, more bland and boring company on the planet. Other than their DB itself, their products are a bad cross between crappy in-house engineering and out-of-date open source code. Even their flagship DB, while it is probably the most stable, reliable, and fast DB out there, is so miserable to deal with that it is cheaper to buy another server and use MySQL or SQL Server in a cluster than it is to hire Oracle consultants. I am not a fan of Oracle in the slightest.<br><br>Of course, Sun has all of the same issues too... other than Solaris itself, none of their products really shine.<br><br>J.Ja It’s an interesting match. I agree that Oracle is a much better buyer than IBM; IBM basically would have been buying the engineering teams, the Java stuff, maybe roll some of the Solaris stuff into AIX, and thrown the rest away. It would have been a total asset stripping of a company with a lot of history. On the other hand, Oracle is the least imaginative, more bland and boring company on the planet. Other than their DB itself, their products are a bad cross between crappy in-house engineering and out-of-date open source code. Even their flagship DB, while it is probably the most stable, reliable, and fast DB out there, is so miserable to deal with that it is cheaper to buy another server and use MySQL or SQL Server in a cluster than it is to hire Oracle consultants. I am not a fan of Oracle in the slightest.

Of course, Sun has all of the same issues too… other than Solaris itself, none of their products really shine.

J.Ja

]]> By: George Ou http://www.formortals.com/sun-gets-its-knight-in-shining-armor-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1463 George Ou Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:43:08 +0000 http://www.formortals.com/?p=177#comment-1463 See Scott's article. See Scott’s article.

]]> By: nuCrash http://www.formortals.com/sun-gets-its-knight-in-shining-armor-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 nuCrash Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:42:04 +0000 http://www.formortals.com/?p=177#comment-1462 They are a fairly great match. Not only from the server side perspective, but also the fact that Oracle was quick to utilize Java technology in the past. The only company who utilizes Java as much as Oracle to me would be IBM. <br><br>Oracle will probably do some interesting things with Sun. My hopes are that OpenOffice.org gets an overhaul by some DB programmers and that some of the Open Source projects don't get axed. If they are killed, I would think a fork from either Novell or IBM would be in order.<br><br>I am a bit saddened by the fact that Sun had sunk quite a bit of revenue on Open Source and were not able to benefit from this. They are a fairly great match. Not only from the server side perspective, but also the fact that Oracle was quick to utilize Java technology in the past. The only company who utilizes Java as much as Oracle to me would be IBM.

Oracle will probably do some interesting things with Sun. My hopes are that OpenOffice.org gets an overhaul by some DB programmers and that some of the Open Source projects don’t get axed. If they are killed, I would think a fork from either Novell or IBM would be in order.

I am a bit saddened by the fact that Sun had sunk quite a bit of revenue on Open Source and were not able to benefit from this.

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