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> Sun would have been pushing shit uphill to convince Oracle to support a new port for a BSD they would sell on x86 systems. That would have been far and away
by justin66 4y ago
> Sun would have been pushing shit uphill to convince Oracle to support a new port for a BSD they would sell on x86 systems.
That would have been far and away the easiest part of that mission. Oracle will keep an utterly obscure port of the core database product alive for a single customer if they're paying enough money, or at least that is the way it was 20 years ago, and their other products generally just depend on a working JVM. A BSD port in cooperation with Sun would have been extremely easy.
Making enough people in Sun care about desktop computing again would have been the hardest part.
- lizknope 4y agoHP developed Itanium jointly with Intel. HP was the last Itanium vendor and wanted Oracle to keep supporting their DB on Itanium. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/30/oracle_loses_itanium_appeal/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/30/oracle_loses_itanium_...
- justin66 4y agoRegarding the part of post I think you're responding to (Oracle will keep an utterly obscure port of the core database product alive for a single customer if they're paying enough money, or at least that is the way it was 20 years ago), it certainly does seem possible the attitudes changed at Oracle in 2009. In a short timeframe Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, a hardware competitor to Itanium, and Red Hat (whose Linux distribution Oracle clones) announced they would not support Itanium in their next enterprise Linux release.