From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 22 03:38:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8B1106566B for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6434C8FC14 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m38so1587747waf.27 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:38:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OL1spbZLk94DrYGtNlaMr2JuLNOYAUnkzNEgdVbn6QE=; b=QjLO9jdODt00Cy+aeJvTJQLxvTcntyqHmLXR2XDsTLU78WBJIiiBuDc5tn35H/+4P8 cka2Vb1I2VHZf0+kHhyiGiXISAlB1T3GjHJ+YEi2MEhmjxRwcifSJDSfe2GtAqtwYkYX LmyLQ6IMShFWjRBOj+oN2lKfy2Phw5W8qhaAQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=l/JgT1W5KBs6FvB0KvjF0OdlRXNA7Ph454vdEu70MW6IeVX5ubh5av2QUmf1anI1ss 0L4vQZeK++EURwcjGKsneBliz4UKB9IW/wdtBq1JhsK10C37ddxQyS2yRobBxMb6QTXA T9x4WTI28Y6/IDgEM0YQRLF/ZyX1vNYWsV0JM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.157.4 with SMTP id f4mr2194338rve.1.1240371517132; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:38:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090422014929.GA70994@dereel.lemis.com> References: <200904210847.n3L8lpxL082986@lurza.secnetix.de> <20090422014929.GA70994@dereel.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:38:37 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Oracle buys Sun X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:38:37 -0000 Thinking about things a bit, this seems to be a good buy for Oracle. Most likely, IMO, would be an effort to bring MySQL up to the point where it can become Oracle Lite (with paid support, of course), to be used as a the gateway drug to Oracle Express (with more paid support), which is just a stepping-stone to the full Oracle. All with nice, for-pay migration tools. Get'em hooked on the free stuff, then reel them in for the big bucks!! My bet is that we are going to see a lot of development going toward creating a nice spectrum with MySQL+scripting-language-du-jour+whatever-OS on the one end and Oracle DB+Java+Solaris+SPARC on the other, with MySQL on Solaris in the middle. At the same time, we'll see a nice push to get Oracle (more?) optimised for all the storage goodness in Solaris, and a stronger focus on storage hardware solutions/products (storage demand will never go away). And, hopefully, some consolidating and strengthening of the Enterprise Java stack, again, all nicely (more?) optmised for the heavily threaded T1/T2/the-next-SPARC architecture(s). In theory, Oracle can become the next IBM, providing everything you could want in a DB server, storage server, Java server, etc. With all the nice expensive support options available in-house. As a vertical, all-in-one-shop setup, they're looking really good. Especially if you look at things in the long-term, and skip over the knee-jerk reactions. ;) The wildcard bits that will be interesting to watch are OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, and all the other non-DB-related bits that SUN has. Those don't really fit into the new Oracle landscape, IMO. But, I'm just lowly network admin, who hasn't touched Oracle since university (and Oracle Personal could be used as a form of torture), so what do I know? :D -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com