Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (47182)	2/2/2002 9:11:32 AM
From: alydar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

the comments were made at oracles annual analyst conference in redwood, ca. the replay of is available at oracle.com under investor relations. what le actually said was that the high end server business is going away and it will take a few years. he firmly believes that oracles 9i database with "real application clusters" (RAC) will negate the need for high end servers. his premise is that it will be less expensive, more reliable and easily scalable to have a clustered environment. this may be the case. imo, he was not singling out sunw but all of the high end server providers such as hp, cpq, ibm and sunw. in fact, he mentioned that oracle is replacing three high end hp servers with a linux cluster by the summer. again imo, i think that he was aiming his comments at msft and not so much at sunw. he made the point of saying that linux is more reliable, faster and cheaper than windows. i do not know what the future holds but think that le uses these forums to promote his agenda; as he should. msft is the enemy, not sunw. also, sunw has an excellent lineup of low end and mid tier offerings and can compete with anybody. to think the entire world is going to switch over to linux is foolish and that is not what he said. basically, he said you get more value by purchasing a cluster of mid-tier servers than a large server using RAC. when RAC becomes a industry standard this will be the case. at that time, sunw will have a competitive offering with superior functionality. he did not say unix is dying or going away or at least i did not hear him say it. that quote was wrong. isn't linux an offshoot of unix? any thoughts are appreciated. rocky.