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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 08:12 PM EDT |
They did spend nearly 3 days on due diligence, so they couldn't possibly have
made such a silly mistake as to spend $7.4Billion on stale air and some old
programmers documentation.
Controlling the platform stack certainly sounds like it might be worth a bit ,
Larry would probably borrow a chair of Steve B at the prospect of IBM and/or
MS making money every time he sold a database license.
Oracle Unbreakable Linux, in that context would be a reasonable hedge
against the utter collapse of the Sun hardware layer, and to some folks of a
certain frame of mind, if successful, would ideally demonstrate how "giving
away" your software was doomed to fail.
oops, maybe its just me that's cynical.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 10:54 PM EDT |
But now Oracle uses its software arm to leverage hardware
sales. That is why they dumped support of HP's Itanium line.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 05:37 AM EDT |
Just wait, wait......
Maybe some of the reason that huge amounts of its own software is written
in java and they didn't want anyone else in control of java. Shock surprise.
But the biggest reason to buy sun was to get control of MySQL, a potential
long term competitor to its core business. Shock surprise.
Maybe your comments are mindless speculation to justify hating oracle.
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