Oracle’s committment to Sun Solaris and SPARC
September 10, 2009 7:11 pm OpenSolaris, SunNice to see Oracle starting to come out of the woodwork on a few issues in the interim. Good strong statement for Sun’s existing customer and userbase, and headsup to IBM –
Go digg it!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Are they going to drop the brain-damaged MySQL thinggy ?
September 10th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Had a good laugh – sorry, but it would be *impossible* for Oracle to do any
worse than Sun does now, especially in the service and support department. And
zfs really could use some stability and reliability improvements … ‘stop looking and start ganging’ and related hit us hard more than once.
I look forward to a better sun experience and wish you all (honestly) good luck!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
What happen with MySQL?
September 10th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
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!
September 10th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
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
September 11th, 2009 at 12:58 am
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!
September 11th, 2009 at 6:57 am
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September 11th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
“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.
September 11th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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.
September 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Hmm, so I guess that’s the end of Sun in HPC where neither SPARC nor Solaris are of any use..
September 28th, 2009 at 2:02 am
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.