http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracle/bad-week-for-larry/ A SearchOracle.com blog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:43:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracle/bad-week-for-larry/#comment-1404 Jmu Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:27:24 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracle/?p=794#comment-1404 The EC should be much stricter. The new Oracle is already using the combination of its hardware and software to get a better postion than the competition. Last month, SUN published its first TPC results since 2001. 2 weeks earlier, Oracle changed the core factor for the SUN processors used in the benchmark - obviously to make the results of the benchmark look better. Effectively, the total price of the configuration was lowered by about 20% by this change. This is too accidental to be accidental. Other hardware companies are threatened by increased Oracle software prices on their platforms, and lower on SUN. The EC should ask for a strict Chinese wall between the software and hardware departments of the new Oracle. The EC should be much stricter. The new Oracle is already using the combination of its hardware and software to get a better postion than the competition. Last month, SUN published its first TPC results since 2001. 2 weeks earlier, Oracle changed the core factor for the SUN processors used in the benchmark - obviously to make the results of the benchmark look better. Effectively, the total price of the configuration was lowered by about 20% by this change. This is too accidental to be accidental. Other hardware companies are threatened by increased Oracle software prices on their platforms, and lower on SUN. The EC should ask for a strict Chinese wall between the software and hardware departments of the new Oracle.

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