Rob,
Do you think that is an opportunity for Delsecur ?
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - In a direct assault on
their mutual archrival Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.
and Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce plans
Monday to work together on a new type of computer
that does not require an operating system, analysts and
industry sources said.
With Microsoft, the world's largest software
company, now mired in its antitrust case with U.S.
government regulators, its competitors -- Sun, Oracle,
America Online Inc. and others -- have begun to
attack Microsoft more directly.
This latest assault from Sun and Oracle, if their
initiative bears fruit, could obviate the need for the
software giant's Windows NT operating system,
designed for heavy-duty computing.
NT competes primarily with Sun's own brand of the
Unix operating system called Solaris, and
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s, called HP-UX.
"What Oracle and Sun are doing here is cutting out
Microsoft," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with market
research firm Giga Information Group. "That would get
them both excited, and is reasonably compelling."
On top of that, Enderle said, a recent survey
conducted by his firm showed dissatisfaction with
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft running high among
the software giant's corporate customers.
"Dissatisfaction is extremely high with Microsoft -
much higher than with anyone else," Enderle said. "It
looks like the market might respond very favorably to
(an Oracle-Sun team up)."
TR |
