[dba-Tech] The battle ground

On 10/20/2011 10:57 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> > From the early 80s to the late 90s Microsoft was the driving force of the
> computer PC world. You are not there until your CEO is demonized by many.
> ;-)
>
> Microsoft was definitely the power to beat or at least work with. As
> Microsoft was the King of desktops but relevance of the desktops was slowly
> disappearing...is it the end of the PC world?
>
> It will not just the end of the PC world but also the end of the big servers
> and their big software. Microsoft has long had a presence in that market but
> the real King of that software world has been Oracle and its servers have
> been Sun and HP and IBM.
>
> These server companies have been on a buying spree so to position themselves
> just to survive the next computer world shift. Oracle bought up Sun and its
> Open Source MySQL (which has seriously hurt the creditability of MySQL),

If the credibility of MySQL depends not just on the quality of the 
product, which Oracle has improved, but also depends on the database 
community's confidence in Oracle's stewardship, yes. Two straws in the 
wind: Oracle discontinued the cheapest MySQL Enterprise licences, and 
has allowed several MySQL fora to be overrun by spam, to the point of 
unusability for weeks on end, without effective remediation.

PB

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> IBM
> has been moving its markets into more nitch product lines and HP appears to
> currently be on the ropes.
>
> What is replacing all these areas of the computer world? Two major shifts;
> web based applications and the Open Source databases.
>
> 1. All the newer applications have been moving to the web, this is a world
> where the PC holds little relevance. The browser is becoming all-important
> and with the arrival of free and Open Source browsers, the price of entry is
> also free. Proprietary software has not been surviving as the Open Standards
> model has been pushing these products aside.
>
> 2. Open Source database products. The server market has long been dominated
> with big hardware and the software that supports it; mostly Oracle. The
> costs to get into this market has been astronomically expensive. Enter
> server capable OS DB like Postgres, new versions of MySQL and the whole
> NoSQL group of products. The NoSQL products have replaced the big servers in
> two ways; one they are Open Source and free, two; they can run on
> inexpensive hardware as they are fully distributive.
>
> The link following this preamble describes the players in this new world.
> There is hardly a mention of the old PC desktops and big Servers.
>
> http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-f
> acebook
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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