Oracle To Invest In Sun Hardware, Cut Sun Staff

Oracle To Invest In Sun Hardware, Cut Sun Staff 135

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:22PM from the taketh-with-one-hand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's been much speculation as to what Oracle plans to do with Sun once the all-but-certain acquisition is complete. According to separate reports on InfoWorld, Oracle has disclosed plans to continue investing in Sun's multithreaded UltraSparc T family of processors, which are used in its Niagara servers, and the M series server family, based on the Sparc64 processors developed by Fujitsu. However, Larry Ellison has reportedly said that once the Sun acquisition is complete, Oracle will hire 2,000 new employees — more people than it expects to cut from the Sun workforce. Oracle will present its plans for Sun to the public Wednesday."

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Re:All I know about that is... (Score:4, Funny)

by QuantumRiff ( 120817 ) writes: on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:46PM (#30924170)

Just how many blade servers do you have to buy to "make up the revenue" from one HPUX box?

Leave those stellar objects alone (Score:4, Funny)

by (ana!)a ( 769730 ) writes: on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:51PM (#30924264)

I can't believe what's happening, first ax the moon [orlandosentinel.com], now cut the sun [slashdot.org], not to mention this thing about mars' spirit being stuck [slashdot.org]. What the hell is going on with our solar system ?

Re:2000 new hires (Score:3, Funny)

by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) writes: on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @05:34PM (#30925136)

Seriously, dude, I wouldn't want to hire any outdated support consultants from 1998. :P

Investment Opportunity (Score:3, Funny)

by twmcneil ( 942300 ) writes: on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @06:03PM (#30925742)

Go short in where ever My Little Pony ends up next.

I don't know about this... (Score:3, Funny)

by Bill, Shooter of Bul ( 629286 ) writes: on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @07:51PM (#30927504) Journal

Doesn't investing in SPARC processors, at this point, sound a bit ... RISC-y?

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Re:All I know about that is... (Score:4, Funny)

Leave those stellar objects alone (Score:4, Funny)

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Investment Opportunity (Score:3, Funny)

I don't know about this... (Score:3, Funny)

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