Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated 119
jfruhlinger writes "One of Oracle's stated purposes when it bought Sun more than two years ago was to create full-stack appliances: SPARC servers running Solaris or Oracle Linux and Oracle's suite of app servers and of course its omnipresent database. Its new T4 processor is a reaffirmation of that strategy. But has the company painted itself into a corner? While it's cautiously embraced the cloud, its cloud services don't work with Windows or other companies' offerings, which kills much of their potential value; meanwhile, they've managed to alienate open source developers and big swaths of the Java community. It seems that Oracle's inability to play well with others is locking them out of the multipolar future."
Uncle Larry is not in the "giving stuff away" biz (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uncle Larry is not in the "giving stuff away" b (Score:4, Funny)
... To me, Oracle wants to acts like they have that stick when in reality, it's just too small.
You heard here first folks. Larry Ellison's "stick" is too small!