Announcer:The robustness and performance you have come to expect from Sun and Oracle is now backed with names with robustness and longevity to match. Run Oracle on SPARC, now from Hewlett Packard.
Sun and Solaris provide a "preferred" environment for Oracle.
"Oracle has based entire our middleware strategy on Java and J2EE integration," Ellison said. "Our approach is all built around Java." He said the move was sparked by requests from customers.
That Oracle would tout the performance of an ally is no surprise, regardless of whether an acquisition was in the works.
Especially if, as Cringely supposes, that the whole point of the deal was to use SPARC to get a few more years out of the traditional database market (vs. Google/Hadoop-style methods).
COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from
a corporation whose president codes in octal.
-- J.N. Gray
Oracle is advertising Sun hardware (Score:5, Insightful)
Change is just a press release away.. (Score:2)
Announcer: The robustness and performance you have come to expect from Sun and Oracle is now backed with names with robustness and longevity to match. Run Oracle on SPARC, now from Hewlett Packard.
Sun and Solaris provide a "preferred" environment for Oracle.
"Oracle has based entire our middleware strategy on Java and J2EE integration," Ellison said. "Our approach is all built around Java." He said the move was sparked by requests from customers.
That Oracle would tout the performance of an ally is no surprise, regardless of whether an acquisition was in the works.
Re: (Score:2)
Why in hell would they want to sell the Sun hardware business to HP when they have just started to advertise it? See http://www.oracle.com/features/sunoraclefaster.html [oracle.com] [oracle.com]
Especially if, as Cringely supposes, that the whole point of the deal was to use SPARC to get a few more years out of the traditional database market (vs. Google/Hadoop-style methods).