Sun makes (made) awesome technology. They built things no one else could build. They also built things no one wanted. In fact, they had a really hard time figuring out what people wanted, this was their weakness.
Oracle, on the other hand, is extremely good and marketing. They are especially good at marketing to business. They are also good at knowing what businesses want (or alternately, making business people want what they have). I don't like Oracle, but I have to say this may be the best thing th
Are You Really Prepared for the Hardware Market? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Are You Really Prepared for the Hardware Market (Score:5, Interesting)
Oracle, on the other hand, is extremely good and marketing. They are especially good at marketing to business. They are also good at knowing what businesses want (or alternately, making business people want what they have). I don't like Oracle, but I have to say this may be the best thing th
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That must be why they kept going into companies to sell Oracle RDBMS, only to find the companies preferred MySQL.
Re:Are You Really Prepared for the Hardware Market (Score:2)
I very much doubt that any shop that chose MySQL over Oracle did so for any reason but price.
In other words, such a shop was never really a potential customer.