Re: Bye bye Itanium and HP-UX?
- From: K R <kp0773@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:34:10 -0700
Oracle to HP: 'Liar, liar, pants on fire'
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/oracle_itanium_statement_again/
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> OK, personal opinion here.
>
> Having had to deal with SUN severs running Solaris in the past I
> think that the largest problem for Oracle/SUN comes not from Itanium
> chip powered servers as much as it comes from Fujitsu who make look
> alike servers to the SUN machines at a significant discount over SUN and
> with much higher reliability. We had 4 brand spanking new SUN servers
> that the tech rep replaced everything in except for the cases & they
> still would not run for more than an hour. The Fujitsu machines dropped
> into the racks and mimicked HP servers, namely they were rocks in the
> datacenter just sitting there doing their job day in and day out
> 24x7x52.
>
> I call then rocks because when was the last time you had a
> problem with a rock, other than location. Darn reliable aren't they.
>
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Leader
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fahrenfort, Keith
> (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle)
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:03 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Bye bye Itanium and HP-UX?
>
> Hi Guys, if you'd permit me to make one email post:
>
> HP's side of the story is here - www.hp.com/go/customersfirst
>
> If any Oracle on HP-UX customers have concerns, you are welcome to
> contact me directly.
>
> Thanks! Regards!
>
> Keith Fahrenfort
> Solutions Architect
> HP-Oracle Competency Center
>
> Americas Shared Solutions Architecture (SSA)
> Hewlett-Packard Company
>
> keithf@xxxxxx / Email
>
> Reach the team at ssa@xxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Hemant.Chitale@xxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:54:54 +0000
>
> Of course it isn't gentlemanly,
> ! HP is handing it out to Oracle in the non x86 server space & Oracle
> badly
> need to make the Hardware, Software Complete strategy work or the SUN
> acquisition is a disaster. Killing all your enterprise software lines
> for
> your competition and trash talking their future makes compelling sense
> from
> where Oracle are right now.
>
> On 24 Mar 2011 03:59, "Chitale, Hemant Krishnarao"
> <Hemant.Chitale@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Whether Itanium is good or bad, whether HP continues with Itanium or not
> ...
> that Oracle Press Release is a case of Oracle putting words in Intel's
> mouth.
>
> I don't think it is gentlemanly of Oracle to word a Press Release in
> such a
> manner.
>
> Hemant K Chitale
>
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> Subject: Bye bye Itanium and HP-UX?
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/346696
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