Oracle
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More SORE
Larry Ellison is banging the drum about how Soracle is serious about keeping Sun’s hardware business. What should we conclude from this? That Oracle desperately wants to get rid of Sun’s hardware business…
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Soracle
Proposed stock symbol: SORE Customer line: “I’m a SORE customer…” Rejected names: Sunacle? Too close to Unocal. Orasun? Sounds like a cloying dental product. Orsun? You could easily swap Ellison for Hearst in the remake of Citizen Kane… Ok, so this isn’t a merger of equals. It is the end of Sun. Only Oracle survives. …
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MySQL or My Bad?
I was wondering a few months ago how Sun’s MySQL acquisition would impact their relationship with Oracle: How has the MySQL acquisition by Sun impacted the relationship with Sun’s biggest historical partner, Oracle? I may be misjudging Oracle’s leadership, history and culture, but my guess is they view databases as their birthright and treat any…