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Recent history suggests for Sun's patents, not their software. Oracle has claimed they bought Sun for their hardware (e.g. so they could do vertical integratio
by gvb 16y ago
Recent history suggests for Sun's patents, not their software.
Oracle has claimed they bought Sun for their hardware (e.g. so they could do vertical integration selling like IBM), but that remains to be seen if it is true or not.
- ora600 16y agoOracle used Sun's hardware to build the Exadata - which they very aggressively sell as a data warehouse solution. Competing with Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum and the likes.