[dfwgator]

HP is essentially now a business services company, with their acquisition of EDS and now trying to acquire Autonomy. Acquiring HP gets Oracle into the game of business services, which they’ve been trying to do for a long time.

[rarestia]

HP’s servers are the best in the industry, in my opinion. We’ve been using the ProLiant line for 20 years, and it’s a solid workhorse.

I wouldn’t spend a dime on anything from IBM. Their xSeries servers were a maintenance nightmare, and you could not PAY me to deploy a Dell server. They’re good doorstops though.

[the invisib1e hand]

you answered my question before I asked it. see if you can shave a few milliseconds off that response time, though.

[muawiyah]

Uh, yeah ~ sure ~ thinking about a combined Oracle/HP go at a printer ~ you first sign up for a 6 week's course on how to turn on the switch with a data base command.

Then you still have to talk to the help desk.

[Michael Barnes]

It also pits them solely against the last UNIX player in the market, IBM. Recall, Oracle owns Sun Microsystems already (Java, Sun gear, Solaris and they are already incorporating that into their exabyte frames). They will go straight at WebSphere, AIX, data warehouses, etc..
Redhat might wanna watch their six.