Most burning questions for Oracle
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There are so many questions about what Oracle is doing with its new Sun franchise, it's hard to suss out the top few, but here's a try.
1: What's really going on with Sparc? While
There are so many questions about what Oracle is doing with its new Sun franchise, it's hard to suss out the top few, but here's a try.
1: What's really going on with Sparc? While
You had to see this one coming. The Register reports that Oracle has deep-sixed Hewlett-Packard's ability to sell/support Solaris running on X-64-based HP hardware. Given that Oracle has said it will only...
Hewlett-Packard, IBM and yes--even Cisco Systems--hope to make hay out of Oracle's decision to boost support price on Sun hardware.
And there's no shortage of
Oracle execs up to and including Larry Ellison have been vocal about their plan to continue, even boost, support for Java and Solaris. This week the company started talking up plans for some of Sun's more niche software products, albeit in a very general way.
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