Oracle May Sell Off Sun Hardware Division
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Larry Dignan seems to be unusually on top of this story, as he gives more insight to the Oracle buyout of Sun.
Stating that Oracle might have valued the hardware division at zero makes many wonder how all that Sun hardware will continue on. Will it be a third party picking up the pieces, or will it be quietly supported until the contracts run their course, and then left quietly to die?
Perhaps the Sun hardware division will be bought by IBM, to keep it away from others, or to simply put it away in the tech closet forever.
full story here
I certainly hope we don’t start finding machines with that logo appearing at computer swap meets in droves.
Update:
Patrick Thibodeaux, from ComputerWorld, has a few things to add to the story. He asserts that IBM just might have tried to put Solaris in the cupboard, as soon as possible, so that its own AIX brand of Unix would be running on that much more of the big iron. That same big iron might also run DB2, IBM’s star database, instead of Oracle. So, it was a move to obtain something of value, and a move of protection, at one time.
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I don’t think it’s likely that Oracle will be getting rid of the hardware business.
Oracle has been looking into moving into hardware. Just look at the deal with HP for the Exadata line of storage. Now Oracle will have Sun’s Open Storage as well as the StorageTek line. They’ve been struggling with Btrfs while ZFS has been in production for a long time.
I don’t think that they put 0 value for their hardware in their bid. In the past, they were going to team up with HP to buy Sun. Oracle would pay $2 billion for the software and HP would buy the hardware. For oracle to spend more than double, and not value the billions of dollars coming in from Sun’s hardware business doesn’t make sense.
Oracle wants to be able to deliver a complete solution “from application to disk” and the hardware division of Sun allows them to do that.