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2006-10-26 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think rather than hosing RedHat, Oracle wants to go up against IBM, the other Linux supporter, especially in database areas, such as IBM's DB2 product line.

Unfortunately Red Hat may suffer for this.

Posted by badanov 2006-10-26 00:44|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-10-26 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 There's not enough room in this world to contain Larry Ellison's ego, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-10-26 03:27|| 2006-10-26 03:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Guam's government tried since Year 2000, and before, to get its new ORACLE systems up-and-running - alas, to no avail. ORACLE > "IT"-THAT-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-26 04:30|| 2006-10-26 04:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe, maybe they need a bit of voodoo. It's after all oracle.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-26 04:43|| 2006-10-26 04:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I think rather than hosing RedHat, Oracle wants to go up against IBM, the other Linux supporter, especially in database areas, such as IBM's DB2 product line.

I hope they succeed. Nothing sucks like DB2.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-10-26 05:14|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-10-26 05:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Haven't been doing db2, so will take your word for it. But oracle is no miracle either.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-26 05:27|| 2006-10-26 05:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The big O wants to gobble my employer as well. I can't see where that's going to work out well for very many here, myself included.

Posted by JerseyMike 2006-10-26 07:15|| 2006-10-26 07:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Ellison has a long history of buying into business lines / products / application areas and then shifting out of them quickly a few years later.

However, he is indeed hurting a bit since IBM is making significant advances in new areas -- personalized information agents, vector machines, various areas of intelligent software to name a few. These will transform the database application scene over the next 5-7 years and Oracle has nothing to offer in response. So Ellison is trying to sop up the existing Linux intergration business while he can.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-26 07:42|| 2006-10-26 07:42|| Front Page Top

#9 There's not enough room in this world to contain Larry Ellison's ego

He makes Donald Trump look like Ghandi.

Posted by Raj 2006-10-26 08:14|| 2006-10-26 08:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree fully with #1, now I go take a #2

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-26 12:52|| 2006-10-26 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Truth is that Redhat cvahrges about $800 per year per machine for the lowest level of license.

And thats expensicve when you thnk about the life of the machine, and the fact tht most low-end servers run in the $2000 range.

Oracle manages to put together a Linux distro that supports their database and cuts in half the licensing/support costs (which is the biggest chunk of expense inthe lifespan of a system)? I say Hurrah - and thanks for saving US taxpayers the money!

Posted by OldSpook 2006-10-26 12:56|| 2006-10-26 12:56|| Front Page Top

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