[geeks] Tim Oren on Oracle - Sun

[Lionel Peterson]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:55 AM, "William Enestvedt" <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu 
 > wrote:

> The official press release from Sun had a quote from Larry Ellison
> saying the two big wins are Solaris and Java.
>
>   Maybe they want a hardware/OS/db applicance kind of thing. In that
> case the CoolThreads servers could keep SPARC alive for the middle  
> tier,
> while they'd need to better-support the Solaris x86 Oracle for the
> database.

Oracle dabbled in hardware at least once before, a PC appliance that  
booted off a CD, and he has his bespoke Linux as well, but I wasn't of  
the opinion either did well...

Lionel