And I thought professional whiners in cdi claim that Oracle is
more than IBM + Microsoft combined after IBM took over Informix.

Taken from today's WSJ article


Larry Ellison, chief executive of software giant Oracle Corp., has recently
suggested his company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems—a major player in Unix
servers—will spell trouble for IBM. But IBM executives say the Power7
announcement
only ensures their market-share lead in the Unix market; IDC, a research firm,
says IBM's share of the market for Unix systems has swelled to 39% today from
25%
in 2003.

Clearly the OP can't read or discern Hardware from Software sales.

To OTC's point...

Customers are purchasing Intel based E5500 series chip sets and are lookingat distributed solutions.

Larry is correct in that their purchase of Sun, they are now able to better compete and beat IBM at their own game.
Of course IBM itself will also be key in helping them do it. ;-)

-G


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dba6319 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
Apples and pears/oranges.
You're comparing _databases_ on Unix (or rather DBMS's) with _hardware_
platforms running Unix.

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Jeroen

<dba6319 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

The article is referring to hardware sales for UNIX servers, not database
sales. Oracle is now in the hardware business by virtue of its purchase of
Sun Microsystems.

that is really good and i sure hope obstacle will keep sun alive and
kicks ibm in the ass.
for ibm this should be yet another wakeup call to promote all they've
got including informix
so they can nuke obstacle; they better promote/benchmark informix so
they can nuke
obstacle.........


Superboer.

btw i doubt that the ibm wakes up....

LOL...

The day the EU granted Oracle the right to close the deal with Sun was yet another nail in IBM's coffin.

IBM seems to have forgotten that they are more than just a 'services' company. For IBM to be successful they need to hit on all cylinders.

It will take a couple of years for this simple fact to sink in.


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One can dream, though.

JWC