Comments on: Oracle’s committment to Sun Solaris and SPARC

By: Che

Che — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:02:58 +0000

To clear things up here is a great video if you have the time to listen. Zander and Larry having a chat very recently… http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1069

To the above anon post that says “I know from some big companies that have already started investing time into a possible solaris replacement based on such advice.”

wtf? This would have to be the most foolish things I have ever heard. Re-platforming would have to be one of the most expensive transition exercises I can think of right up there with physical data centre relocation. You would have to be totally out of your mind to begin such actions based upon a rumour alone…there is no doubt more to that story.

By: Chris Samuel

Chris Samuel — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:53:19 +0000

Hmm, so I guess that’s the end of Sun in HPC where neither SPARC nor Solaris are of any use..

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:27:21 +0000

I’ve heard stories of people who got the advice from their Sun partnered IT supplier/ISV’s, that Oracle was going to do just about the reverse of everything on that list.

Assuming that was then FUD, how did that even start to spread?

I know from some big companies that have already started investing time into a possible solaris replacement based on such advice. It seems a few months late for Oracle to respond to these rumours.

By: shayne

shayne — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:32:30 +0000

“Are they going to drop the brain-damaged MySQL thinggy ?”

I should hope not. Brain Damaged or not, MySQL is a tight, fast, efficient and most importantly affordable DB thats served the low end admirably well. Oracles a great DB , but its generally out of both the price range and the philosophical (Open source) scope of a lot of installations.

I dont care if they call it “Oracle MySQL” or whatever, as long as they keep it alive.

Oracle now is in a position to capture the low end via MySQL by applying Oracle engineers expertise to it and really making it a winning proposition. I hope they realise that.

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By: P Diddy

P Diddy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:58:24 +0000

Let’s be honest though, “spending more money on X than Sun does now” wouldn’t be all that difficult, and could mean as little as hiring one extra person!

By: Alberto Ruiz

Alberto Ruiz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:55:22 +0000

Really happy to see that many of the folks I worked with are safe, not really surprised of any of those statements to be honest. Why would you buy Sun otherwise?

I’m sort of excited to see what’s going to happen once the cogs are altogether

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:35:27 +0000

Oh yeah

Pretty sure all the same The Register (Chris Mellor et al) and Steven J Vaugh Nicols etc and just about every other hack with a crystal ball on a slow news day will find some way to put a negative spin on this.

Personally, I’m jazzed!

By: gman

gman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:03:45 +0000

Lukas: I disagree with you – Sun is widely known as providing the best paid support services. Yes there have been issues with Solaris’ old patching technology, but I fully expect IPS to fix that situation. I agree ZFS has had issues, but probably no more than any other relatively new file system of choice.
tth: I don’t know – this ad is obviously about their commitment to Solaris and SPARC.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:30:54 +0000

What happen with MySQL?