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.