[dba-Tech] Oracle to Buy Sun

Aren't we forgetting IBM?

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:01 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Oracle to Buy Sun

This acquisition is about obtaining a delivery mechanism that spans hardware
and OS and middleware and so on. Sparc is the definitive Linux/Solaris
platform. Atop that is all the Oracle middleware (all in Java), and atop
that are all the Oracle Apps. So this creates a company that can deliver, as
no one else can, a stack that encompasses hardware, middleware and software.
Nobody else in the playground can offer this end-to-end solution.