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9 May 2009
#21829
Larry Ellison on the Acquisition of Sun Microsystems
After the Acquisition, Oracle will not exit the hardware business

Oracle has posted the transcription of an interview of Larry Ellison to their web site. In that interview, Larry makes a number of important statements for existing Sun customers, partners, and employees. He stately clearly that, "we are definitely not going to exit the hardware business. While most hardware businesses are low-margin, companies like Apple and Cisco enjoy very high-margins because they do a good job of designing their hardware and software to work together."
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7 May 2009
#21748
Good News from Sun Marketing
May 2009

Each month Sun Marketing publishes the "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 11 items and 3 groups:

  • Customers Choose Sun: MySQL, Sun Constellation System, ZFS, Lustre, Sun Open Source Software, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
  • Leading Market Conversations: Open Network Systems, MySQL 5.4
  • Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, Sun Fire X4440 server, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.2, MySQL 5.4

A two-page PDF of the "Good News" from Sun is available in English and several other languages.
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