Re: Sun-Oracle lovefest: PostGreNeverMind

Agreed, and I guess I should have included a winky face to show the teasing tone I intended. But it does underscore the basic point that the longtime symbiosis between Oracle and Sun is still alive and well, and PostgreSQL community members who 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 these are mostly different markets. Oracle on the proprietary architecture servers, PostgreSQL on the commodity architecture servers. Seems a reasonable strategy to me.
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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.
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> 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).
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> Joshua D. Drake
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