Comments on: What Was It Oracle Wants With Sun, Again? Redux. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090916/what-was-it-oracle-wants-with-sun-again-redux/ by John Paczkowski Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac Beach http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090916/what-was-it-oracle-wants-with-sun-again-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-13921 Mac Beach Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:52:39 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=24867#comment-13921 The impression I got from a user group meeting a couple years ago was that they (Sun) had a lot of users who had maxed out their hardware and were looking for alternatives. They were happy with Sun, both hardware and software, they just needed bigger faster stuff, and the only way they could get it was to go to emulation mode on IBM equipment. In fact the user group was aimed at IBM users and one of the topics was there ability to run Sun software. The impression I got was that they had little confidence in Sun's ability to keep up with demand for high end machines. This could of course been a self-selected sample in that regard. I'm certainly no authority on Sun. What I wonder though about this acquisition is does Oracle really want to get into the hardware business (particularly for servers) at all. I can only suspect that they are really desperate to diversify away from complete dependence on a RDBMS revenue stream. Of course two of their competitors in RDBMS are Microsoft and IBM, both of which sell those products into their own OS environment. It looks a lot like "me too" and I wonder if it wasn't more of an emotional decision than a "do the math" one. The impression I got from a user group meeting a couple years ago was that they (Sun) had a lot of users who had maxed out their hardware and were looking for alternatives. They were happy with Sun, both hardware and software, they just needed bigger faster stuff, and the only way they could get it was to go to emulation mode on IBM equipment. In fact the user group was aimed at IBM users and one of the topics was there ability to run Sun software.

The impression I got was that they had little confidence in Sun’s ability to keep up with demand for high end machines. This could of course been a self-selected sample in that regard. I’m certainly no authority on Sun.

What I wonder though about this acquisition is does Oracle really want to get into the hardware business (particularly for servers) at all.

I can only suspect that they are really desperate to diversify away from complete dependence on a RDBMS revenue stream. Of course two of their competitors in RDBMS are Microsoft and IBM, both of which sell those products into their own OS environment. It looks a lot like “me too” and I wonder if it wasn’t more of an emotional decision than a “do the math” one.

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