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Arrrgh, what have they done!!!???

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    #11
    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Well I meant from Sun's so-called portfolio,
    Sun have no portfolio now that they have no company

    MySQL won't disappear from Oracle's portfolio, though, any more than InnoDB disappeared.

    Originally posted by stek View Post
    I still have a copy of Sun Linux 4.0 - why start at 4.0, never even got to 4.1, Sun try and reject a lot....
    Because it's psychological - start at a higher number and it looks like you have a robust product that has been around for a while. For the same reason that Oracle DB started at 5 IIRC.
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      #12
      Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
      Because it's psychological - start at a higher number and it looks like you have a robust product that has been around for a while. For the same reason that Oracle DB started at 5 IIRC.

      That explains the jump from Windows 3.1 to 95.
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        #13
        Originally posted by PAH View Post
        That explains the jump from Windows 3.11 for workgroups to 95.
        FTFY

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          #14
          Originally posted by ctdctd View Post
          FTFY
          We're independent freelancers on here. There's no me in workgroup* so I totally ignore that version.

          *The permies can have all the brown nose/bag lunches they want.
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            #15
            Originally posted by stek View Post
            http://www.sun.com - it's all Oracle-y....

            And I can't find owt, it's a mess, looks a primitive merge of oracle.com and sun.com......
            I was looking through the site today for APIs and hit an error.

            http://www.java.com/hc3.asp

            Noticed that the java site is an asp site now, jesus wept.

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              #16
              Originally posted by stek View Post
              I do hope Oracle will push Sun's best product lines
              least crap

              Sun have lost the plot

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                #17
                Originally posted by Platypus View Post
                Sun have lost the plot
                Their pricing was a (n expensive) joke for a long time.

                But as they said back then - nobody gets fired for buying Oracle and Sun

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