tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072705265080833937.post1895627376938559230..comments2024-02-17T08:20:10.226+02:00Comments on SOA filling the Gaps: Oracle-Sun Hardware: Easy to say and Hard to do – Oracle's Exadata 2Avi Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14012894476959942872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072705265080833937.post-30038919018678655212009-09-19T12:40:06.498+03:002009-09-19T12:40:06.498+03:00meni, thanks for your comment.
I do think that Sun...meni, thanks for your comment.<br />I do think that Sun was an innovate and creative company (e.g. creation of Java), which earned my sympathy.<br />Oracle is less creative and more business oriented. If you are a small company (like Google in its first years) you can be very creative. If you are a very large company like Oracle or Microsoft, you have to address your customers, requirements. The most creative Database makers in the 90ths was Informix. Oracle is still the DBMS market leader and Informix is no longer a vendor.Large companies like Oracle usually buy inventive companies instead of being very creative (sometimes Oracle and other large companies are creative). You can read a relevant post in my blog titled Vendors Survival Guide: Supermarket, Grocery and Kiosk http://avirosenthal.blogspot.com/2008/05/vendor-survival-guide-supermarket.html .<br />The bottom line in my opinion: Oracle is not a hardware company and if it think of combined Hardware & Software product it could easily partner with an Hardware vendor. Successful Exadata 2 or 3 could be sold together with other storage products to a storage hardware vendorAvi Rosenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012894476959942872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072705265080833937.post-89455081607569049102009-09-19T09:01:44.119+03:002009-09-19T09:01:44.119+03:00Its true that Oracle holds all the cards very clos...Its true that Oracle holds all the cards very close to its chest. Its true that uncertainty is here.<br /><br />Its also true that every Oracle customer has year to year growing storage needs which EMC, NetApp or now Oracle can fulfill.<br /><br />I think that when Oracle R&D guys sit with Sun's HW R&D guys many innovative solutions that simply can't exist today will emerge.<br /><br />At the bottom line, I think that if Oracle (which is a SW only company as of today) would like to significantly grow their business, they need to do something creative, innovative and most importantly DIFFERENT than what they / their competition can / does in its day-to-day reality.<br /><br />I don't think its right for Oracle to start selling pizza box servers and i'm sure Oracle knows that. The edge, the money -- the ROI can only be achieved by creating a fresh new solution, something of the kind that will surprise our industry. <br /><br />Thinking about it more in-depth, its just like owning Java.<br />Java is virtually the hardware on top of all Oracle's SW runs on (except for the DB which is C++ IIRC), owning Java helps you innovate your currently existing Java applications / Servers. Owning the HW design will help you do even more.<br /><br />I hope that his is where Oracle is taking Sun's technology for, I could always be mistaken, but it just doesnt feel right, and raises a lot of other questions, financial, regulatory and simply logical...Meni Meller (מני מלר)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02126721526268323821noreply@blogger.com