your geek is showing :-) "I do seriously love Sun hardware however....N1 cluster over a fine T2000 with 2450 fiber channel system is well, you have to taste one to appreciate...." but i would been quite sad to see zfs go away.. I'm seriously looking into the idea of a sun based san. and also looking at some of the sun servers for use here as xenserver host(s). and i really dont think oracle is going to write off sun, it would make no sense to them unless it was "that bad" On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > They just didn't want IBM to write SUN off at a loss - since their > competing products with Redhat/JBOSS/Blades (can you say "backplane"?) > are so much higher dollar ROI. > > A great number of enterprise web and database Oracle farms run on Sun > Hardware and Sun Unix [I have built and supported them for 20 > years...] > > Some say that XEN and other Virtualization products available in > portal IBM systems (RHEL) and blades are so s-hexy as to make zfs and > zones/containers laughable? > > I do seriously love Sun hardware however....N1 cluster over a fine > T2000 with 2450 fiber channel system is well, you have to taste one to > appreciate.... > > I doubt very much if Oracle really had much of a choice.  What is > going to be interesting is what will happen in the way of: > > 1) Hardware offerings > 2) Offshored/Outsourced support > 3) Technology level for product base > > > On 4/20/09, Andrew "Tuna" Harris wrote: >> Excerpts from James Mcphee's message of Mon Apr 20 04:52:33 -0700 2009: >>> It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun.  This is not a drill. >>> How >>> is this going to play out for Java and MySQL? >>> >> Why did they buy Sun? Is that all these rich people do? >> >> "Hmmm... *fingertip-touching in front of own face thing* How can I get >> my name on Slashdot again... *yawn* Ah, hell, I'll just buy Sun." >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 > "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss