Re: OraSUN MicroDatabases

Dion wrote:
> Andrew Sinclair wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> One thing I didn't think of was Virtualbox. Sun bought Innotek some time
> ago and has been developing Virtualbox along quite nicely.
> 
> As the industry is pushing Virtualisation quite hard, Oracle could
> develop Virtualbox along, to battle with VMWare, Microsoft et al.
> 
> D.
> 

Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:42:05AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
>> I think you may have forgotten that IBM makes servers and also has a
>> database (for better or worse) in the form of DB2.
>>
>> My feelings are that mysql would be on the chopping block either way.
>
> They attack the the low-end market with MySQL and the high-end
> market with Oracle. Do I see MS-SQL being squished to death there?
>
> Edwin
>

We should try this some time; Ubuntu on the desktop/server space,
FreeBSD on the appliances and high availability servers. Now the latter
sounds like a small market share but consider how many people fail to
acknowledge the presence of these intelligent little devices. They're
already appearing for clean-up on the streets of Sydney in abundance.
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