Oracle与IBM的战火: 旭日东昇(Sun Rises)

IBM广邀Solaris的客户投向IBM. Oracle的CEO Larry Ellison自非省油的灯. 在Oracle的Openworld中强力回击.
Ellision悬赏千万美金, 如果有企业的资料库应用程式在Sun上面不能跑, 或如果不能至少以两倍的速度跑, 将给予一千万美金, 并欢迎IBM加入竞逐赏金.

赏金诱人, 但是最重要的是他的另一句话: "If IBM wants to compete we will compete. We are not selling the hardware business, no part of the software business are we selling." 也就是, 硬体留, Solaris留, Netbeans留, MySQL留, Glassfish留, Java留...全都留.

对于外界对购併Sun不断的疑虑, Ellison也一次说清: "We are looking forward to competing with IBM in the systems business, and we think the combination of Sun and Oracle is well equipped to compete successfully against the giant. We hope this [removes] some of the uncertainty. We're in it to win it." 看来, 项庄舞剑, 志在沛公.