Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions 207
The Register writes "Sun invited Oracle president Charles Phillips and chief corporate architect Edward Screven to an employee-only town hall this Wednesday, where they took questions on what's coming. They said they'd be 'crazy' to close Java, that Oracle 'needs' MySQL, and all Sun's processors look appealing. They hedged on OpenOffice — Phillips said he couldn't comment on any product line — and on Sun's work in high-performance computing. Screven made it pretty clear the Sun vision of cloud computing does not fit with Oracle's; Oracle sees itself as a provider of infrastructure like virtualization to make clouds, not a provider of hosted services. As for who's staying and who's getting cut at Sun: Phillips said Oracle needs Sun, but warned 'tough decisions' will be coming. Don't forget, this is the company that couriered pink slips to the PeopleSoft staff it cut following that acquisition."
Re:Here's praying... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Here's praying... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:remember, sun != peoplesoft (Score:3, Funny)
In the case of Oracle, you have a company that makes an obscenely bloated, broken, overpriced software package that has caused havoc and pain across the continent.
Fixed that for ya
Re:Here's praying... (Score:2, Funny)
Linux doesn't need Solaris to be GPL'd. All the cool new stuff that Solaris came out with years ago should be in Linux any day now.
Any day now...
Re:Here's praying... (Score:5, Funny)
and a user base to rape!
Dude, have you SEEN the user base? Not even with someone else's dick.
Re:How It Went Down (Score:3, Funny)
Wanted to link that pic of the Iraq guy at the press conference, obviously lying, with his hands in a "simmer down" gesture, but I can't find it. Maybe it wasn't Iraq. I dunno. Someone find it.
Methinks you are a bit unclear on how this whole Internet thing works.
Summary (Score:5, Funny)
Oracle President: See Figure 1 [wordpress.com]
Re:remember, sun != peoplesoft (Score:3, Funny)
Fixed again!
Re:Here's praying... (Score:4, Funny)
Where's all my cool Linux stuff on Solaris, though?
I'm sure you could just compile cygwin ... :-P
Re:Here's praying... (Score:5, Funny)
... to pillage and a user base to rape!
Always rape BEFORE you pillage (and burn)!
Re:No One Takes The Viral GPL Seriously Anymore (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, even married people dream of getting laid someday.