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February 1, 2010  7:24 PM

Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems



Posted by: Jamen Koos
IBM, Oracle, SUN

Personally, I’m glad the EU approved Oracle’s purchase of

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October 26, 2009  5:33 PM

UNIX, love is good, but given unsought, is better



Posted by: Jamen Koos
AIX, Gabriel Consulting, HP-UX, Marketing research, Solaris, SUN, UNIX

Yes, that's a Shakespeare quote.  No, I'm not going to explain how I assert it applies to the following. Being a marketing person, there are a few things that really get me going.  One of them is customer research with compelling results.  What marketing person out there doesn't just love...

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September 23, 2009  6:13 PM

Oracle for president?



Posted by: Jamen Koos
Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, Solaris, SPARC, SUN, UNIX

"I would like us to be the successor to IBM. Not Gerstner's IBM. Not Palmisano's IBM. But when IBM was the dominant software company in the world and translated that to being the dominant systems company." --Larry Ellison.

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September 16, 2009  2:01 PM

Oracle decides to use Linux for new Exadata machine



Posted by: Jamen Koos
Exadata, Intel, IT, Oracle, Solaris, SPARC, SUN, version 2, x86

Oracle decided to use Linux for the new Exadata machine.  They didn't use Solaris.  They also went x86, not SPARC.  I thought I had heard that Mr. Ellison wanted to utilize SPARC the most he could.  He said...

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