Didn’t see that coming did we?

But now things are about to get interesting and assuming this deal is allowed to go through, this could actually be the deal that makes Sun great again.

Why?

Speaking from what my customers and I do and see, when somebody deploys a Microsoft SQL database package, it is typically deployed onto an Intel server from the likes of HP, Dell etc.

When somebody deploys a DB2 database it goes onto IBM hardware.

But what about Oracle?

Well for a long time, the preferred platform for small to reasonably large deployments was Linux (Red Hat to be precise but not essential) running in Intel hardware. This was actually Oracles own preference for a long time.

What do you think Oracles preference is going to be moving forward?

It’s not rocket science is it?