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I wonder if this move has more to do with killing off Solaris than with Oracle directly trying to screw PostgreSQL.
by rnicholson 16y ago
I wonder if this move has more to do with killing off Solaris than with Oracle directly trying to screw PostgreSQL.
- bnoordhuis 16y agoI don't think so. It's not uncommon to run Oracle on Solaris + SUN hardware. Not a large market but one with high profit margins. Why would Oracle want to kill a cash cow?
- ams6110 16y agoFor years, Solaris was the "original" platform upon which Oracle was developed. Everything else was a port. Solaris got the patches first, etc. Several Oracls DBAs I know used to say "if you want to run Oracle you might as well run it on Solaris"
- astine 16y agoThat is true, but Oracle recently has been pushing Linux, not Solaris. The Exadata, which is Oracle's first attempt to to build a database appliance on Sun hardware uses Linux, not Solaris, for example.