Cut the knee-jerk reactions please...
We are talking at the VERY high-end of things here and ONLY for Companies
that have no problem spending millions on their IT hardware anyway... I dont
view this as a "threat" to postgreSQL...
This is a strategic alliance by Sun specifically to sell multi-processing
servers.... Quoting directly from the article...
"...Because Oracle license fees correspond to the number of processors a
server has, Sun's subsidy can be significant on machines such as the E25K,
which has as many as 72 dual-core processors. Singer said the Oracle license
fee for such as system is $850,000..."
On top of that... there is another paragraph that reads...
"...The partnership is far from exclusive, however. Sun still includes other
database software, including the open-source Derby, MySQL and PostgreSQL
packages. "There's lots of choice," McNealy said..."
"Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com> wrote in message
news:43C52484.5090608@nedscape.com...
> http://news.com.com/2100-1012-6025568.html
>
> "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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