LObermey@pervasive.com ("Lance Obermeyer") writes:
> 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 these are mostly different markets.
> Oracle on the proprietary architecture servers, PostgreSQL on the
> commodity architecture servers. Seems a reasonable strategy to me.
It's hard to tell exactly what's what there; doubtless the high end
SPARC hardware is losing market share; on the other hand, Sun has only
just released the "exciting new" Niagara hardware, which is exactly
the sort of "hugely-multicore" hardware that fits into what the
article is talking about.
It seems to me that if Sun falls into being an Opteron vendor, they're
dead, because that puts them into a "commodity" market competing with
HP, Celestica, IBM, and such for sales of low end hardware that they
can't get good markup on.
Where PostgreSQL fits, in that, is enormously ambiguous :-).
This certainly seems to fit into the "Let's Make A Deal" category; if
someone has an interesting deal that might sell some Sun hardware, Sun
is unlikely to cast them from the door...
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