Wow!! I, Bob Doyle, aka First Liberated am at a loss for words. Who would have thunk? Oracle buys SUN Microsystems. If you didn’t see this post http://ditns.blogspot.com/2009/04/ibm-isnt-too-worried-about-oracle.html you need to take a look.

I had almost forgotten about Steve Jobs and his comment about two rocks tied together sinking twice as fast. IBM is pretty dismissive about this marriage, and rightfully so when you consider the history of SUN and Oracle. SUN was floundering in recent years as a hardware company and now software-only Oracle is going to know what to do with it - that seems unlikely. The bigger question now is who in their right mind is going to buy Exaggerdata on HP when it is very likely that it will be gone once this deal is consummated?

It is, however, nice to see that they have realized in order to build or offer an appliance you need to own the whole stack. Larry continues to validate the approach of the only true analytic appliance vendor, Netezza.

If you are someone who thinks that Oracle is the best solution for data warehousing or any analytic database implementation then you may also be a believer in the philosophy - if it’s hard, complex and expensive then it must be the best.

I don’t get it and never will. However, if anyone out there that thinks they can take this old database guy, who has used every one of these complex traditional databases, and convince me that this is a better appliance option then Netezza I really do want to talk to you. Call me on my cell at 508-308-5905. But, when the phone doesn’t ring I will know exactly who it is.

- First Liberated