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I really want to know what Orcale's real plan is. Before the acquisition they have to have figured out some way to reconcile Oracle Linux and Solaris, I just w

by tsally 17y ago

I really want to know what Orcale's real plan is. Before the acquisition they have to have figured out some way to reconcile Oracle Linux and Solaris, I just wish I knew what it was. No matter how you slice it, they are competing products in a very similar space. I suppose they could continue to develop both separately and take advantage of having two brands.

uobubu 17y ago
Not necessarily - the could have simply worried about their customers on Sparc falling into the hands of IBM/HP salesmen with DB2/SQLServer salesmen in tow.
- tsally 17y ago
  Right, but I expected them to slowly phase Sparc and Solaris out, and offer their existing Sparc customers discounts to upgrade.
  - pyre 17y ago
    Not necessarily. It's not like IBM doesn't sell x86 processor systems along with their POWER (and Cell?) processor systems. Oracle will probably package their own hardware by leveraging Sun's resources. You will probably be able to purchase a Sun-Oracle SPARC system and have a choice of Solaris or Linux (which also runs on SPARC) to run your Oracle database on. Otherwise you can run Oracle on Linux if you aren't buying into their integrated hardware solutions. I don't see how they would have to drop everything without being able to make it work together.
    - Tamerlin 17y ago
      That's true, IBM is still one of Intel's biggest server OEM's world wide. Personally, I think that SPARC will end up getting buried by Itanium and POWER, which will in turn get overwhelmed by Opteron and Xeon. :)
mapleoin 17y ago
Oracle isn't really developing Oracle Linux since that's just RHEL. All they do is provide support.
- nailer 17y ago
  They're developing part of the kernel, which will be included in future RHEL releases. They also have people working on Spacewalk and Xen too IIRC.
  - nailer 17y ago
    And Systemtap, which is a fairly important part of both RHEL and OEL I forgot to add.

by tsally 17y ago

uobubu 17y ago

Not necessarily - the could have simply worried about their customers on Sparc falling into the hands of IBM/HP salesmen with DB2/SQLServer salesmen in tow.

tsally 17y ago
Right, but I expected them to slowly phase Sparc and Solaris out, and offer their existing Sparc customers discounts to upgrade.
- pyre 17y ago
  Not necessarily. It's not like IBM doesn't sell x86 processor systems along with their POWER (and Cell?) processor systems. Oracle will probably package their own hardware by leveraging Sun's resources. You will probably be able to purchase a Sun-Oracle SPARC system and have a choice of Solaris or Linux (which also runs on SPARC) to run your Oracle database on. Otherwise you can run Oracle on Linux if you aren't buying into their integrated hardware solutions. I don't see how they would have to drop everything without being able to make it work together.
  - Tamerlin 17y ago
    That's true, IBM is still one of Intel's biggest server OEM's world wide. Personally, I think that SPARC will end up getting buried by Itanium and POWER, which will in turn get overwhelmed by Opteron and Xeon. :)

mapleoin 17y ago

Oracle isn't really developing Oracle Linux since that's just RHEL. All they do is provide support.

nailer 17y ago
They're developing part of the kernel, which will be included in future RHEL releases. They also have people working on Spacewalk and Xen too IIRC.
- nailer 17y ago
  And Systemtap, which is a fairly important part of both RHEL and OEL I forgot to add.