blog.internetnews.com — With Sun it tow, Oracle will now finally have its own operating system with Solaris, instead of just its Oracle Enterprise Linuxon Red Hat).Perhaps more importantly with one swift stroke Oracle has effectively cornered even more of the database market than it already owned.
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fluxionApr 21, 2009
or....they'll drop mysql and keep their free database versionIBM on the other hand has DB2....yah....so they wouldve given mysql some lovin
thomasakaApr 22, 2009
Installation of Oracle compared to SQL Server is ridiculously more complex and fails half the time. Querying an Oracle database takes twice as much code to produce the same results. The tools used to query Oracle are all written in Java so they're painfully slow and don't even have half of the features that SQL Server Management Studio has (or even it's predecessor Query Analyzer).
felyduwApr 22, 2009
There's an issue with that strategy. MySQL and Oracle DB are very different beasts. You have the free version of Oracle in order to be able to develop for it. It is not for the small business neither it is for the home user. It is for the developers. I wouldn't use mysql to develop for oracle...
z3r0bitApr 29, 2009
It's a shame that Apple didn't buy Sun. Solaris Zones in Mac OS X would have been great! Along with scalabilty enhancements that would have been seen if Mac OS X would have merged with Solaris. Sun's storage would be perfect for Apple's pro creative market. The many complementing Apple & Sun tech would have been a force to be reckoned with. MySQL could have been part of Filemaker as well. Sun = Apple Enterprise, Oracle won't innovate.I'm wondering if Sun considered Apple for the buyout. Oracle and IBM are pretty boring.
lonelytylenolMay 3, 2009
It's great to know they still support java. Yay, my Runescapes are saved!
Closed AccountMay 6, 2009
Ellison's a cool dude, but he needs a shave.
hazelloMay 7, 2009
You run it on PostgreSQL instead, and there, you have a superior system. What was the question?