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So.. If under his watch HP made a lot of money with service parts, and substantially reduced R&D spending, he may be a great fit for Oracle. In the sense that t

So.. If under his watch HP made a lot of money with service parts, and substantially reduced R&D spending, he may be a great fit for Oracle. In the sense that they will spend as little as they can on improving Solaris, and just try to make it necessary for the enterprises to integrate with the rest of Oracle portfolio? :-) If I recall correctly, that's the market potential that the recent memo was referring to.

ojbyrne 16y ago
Those kinds of things only work once. I think every IT manager out there knows Solaris is dead, and will be pushing to migrate to open-source alternatives. And every other product that Sun brought to Oracle is also suspect. I just recently quit working at an IT managerish job, and I hope the one thing I left them with is "never, ever buy an HP printer."