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To: Rene Madsen who wrote (6884)	4/9/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: zc66	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Oracle Announces Availability of Industry Leading Suite of Products on the Sun Solaris Platform, Intel Edition biz.yahoo.com

To: Rene Madsen who wrote (6884)	4/9/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: MrJoltCola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

"True that Oracle has strong links to Sun - afterall I believe that's their reference platform - but that doesn't mean they can't release a Oracle version for Linux! You can get Oracle for pretty much any OS these days, including AIX, HP-UX and other strong Solaris competitors - you can even get it for NT (although who on earth would want to use that toybox is beyond my comprehension)." Yes, I'm aware of how many platforms Oracle supports, but AIX, HPUX and Digital UNIX aren't really as threatening to Solaris on the small server market as Linux, SCO and WinNT. Linux is more threatening due to x86 (although now it runs on everything else) because x86 hardware is so cheap. If you want proprietary, super-powerful computers you usually don't mind paying the premium for Sparc, PA/RISC or Alpha and their associated OS because you want that support contract as well, but with x86 it is really hard, nowadays to justify Solaris over Linux, especially when Linux is so much more efficient than Solaris, SCO or NT and doesn't have all the licensing issues. So, that was my logic in saying that it must be pressure from Sun, but it may as well be just that Oracle hasn't justified the Linux market yet, I have no factual data. Linux has two magazines devoted to it, the worldwide user base is in the millions to tens of millions according to surveys I've seen, so YOU tell ME what is holding Oracle back? :)