Agreed, and I guess I should have included a winky face to show the teasing tone I intended. But it does underscore
thebasic point that the longtime symbiosis between Oracle and Sun is still alive and well, and PostgreSQL community
memberswho are hoping for huge contributions or corporate support from Sun might want to temper their expectations a
bit.
Cheers,
Ned
Lance Obermeyer wrote:
> The free Oracle deal is limited to their high end Sparc servers, which (according to the article) are losing market
share. It is not offered for their Opteron servers, which seem to be gaining share due to superior design. I think
theseare mostly different markets. Oracle on the proprietary architecture servers, PostgreSQL on the commodity
architectureservers. Seems a reasonable strategy to me.
>
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> [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:00 AM
> To: Ned Lilly
> Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Sun-Oracle lovefest: PostGreNeverMind
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> Ned Lilly wrote:
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>>http://news.com.com/2100-1012-6025568.html
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>>"The bigger the machine, the cooler this gets," Sun CEO Scott McNealy
>>said at a Sun-Oracle employee town hall meeting at Oracle headquarters
>>where the deal was announced. "We're going to effectively give you the
>>Oracle database for free with a year of support with our new pricing
>>model."
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> I don't read it as PostGreNeverMind. I read it as Oracle has more
> mindshare, marketshare and more money then PostgreSQL so it makes darn
> good business
> sense to have a partnership with Oracle as well.
>
> Sun is going to go where the money is. There is not a ton of money in
> PostgreSQL or MySQL (although a heck of a lot more in MySQL).
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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