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Sun Oracle Snorkel CEO Email makes me sick

Jeremy Geelan posted Jonathan Schwartz’s email to all Sun employees announcing the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Frankly this email makes me very angry. Please consider that analysts are responding to Oracle’s profitability plan: Oracle expects the Sun deal to contribute $1.5 billion toward its earnings next year and $2 billion in the second year of the acquisition, making it “more profitable in per-share contribution in the first year than we had planned for...
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Sun Oracle –”Snorkel” stretches limits of credulity

Snorkel will be a bloody mess! Oracle has no systems experience. What are the possible drivers for a SNORKEL (Sun Oracle)? * Oracle Hardware? Oracle is claiming that highly specialized and tuned hardware can turn in up to 100x performance. So why not mash up Sun systems and Oracle to extend the Oracle appliance concept, already announced in partnership with HP. >>my comment is this is not enough. With Oracle’s lack of experience in systems, this will be exceedingly hard for...
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