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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Java and OpenOffice are the reasons to acquire Sun long-term.

Short-term, Sun’s hardware is what is responsible for Oracle being a world-class RMBMS - and to protect their market, Oracle has to make sure that the hardware of Sun isn’t bought up by some competitor, like IBM, who would and could buy Sun purely for the Java and OpenOffice assets.

With work (a lot of work), Linux or one of the “free” Unix implementations could become the equal of Solaris, but that’s years and years into the future.


7 posted on 06/04/2009 12:17:26 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave

See #10.


17 posted on 06/04/2009 1:31:09 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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