Holy crap
Posted by SpikeApr 20
Oracle is buying Sun – $7.4 billion.
Tiny chance this could backfire …. Oracle software runs on every server; with them owning Sun, will HP, IBM, Dell, etc. rebel? Or is their installed base so secure that it doesn’t matter?
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J.G. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun, Crash and a whole lot more, died yesterday. My one connection to him – 1992, when working for Barclays, they put me up in a service flat in London. Checking the guest register, I saw that Ballard had stayed in the same room immediately before me. So did sleeping in the same bed as him somehow transfer a bit of his talent to me? Nah …
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