Instant Opinion: Sunday deal revives Oracle Network Computer dream

WC and Sunday may have made beautiful music together with IBM Global Services, which makes Sunday impressive strength to work in the Computing Cloud for sustainable strategic corporate IT. Instead, Oracle will acquire intellectual property and more likely to focus on what the revitalized Ellison computer dream.

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano's office right now. Assuming that it is he who ultimately decided to play Hardball IBM in negotiations for the acquisition by Sun Microsystems, he has to think how he could share the sun slipping through his fingers and connectors for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. When he got word Sunday that Oracle had eloped with and protected by the $ 7.4 billion gift, maybe it was livid left leg altar.

I can still remember a conversation I had with Ellison in 1997, when they are asked what is the smartest business decision, it must be done in two previous years.

"I think the NC - a computer network architecture," he answered. The answer will be a standing joke because Ellison had a bad get pilots union to accept the NC and he died an inglorious death soon. But this was obviously something.
Palmisano You can bet that if he had to do again, he would not be so calm when he was haggling with the price Sunday. He should know, he was lurking shadow Ellison. Finally, Ellison and Scott McNealy, Sun, the former President and CEO have been friends for years, and is quintessentially Ellisonesque to capture the spotlight with a dramatic landscape change, scene-stealing appearance.

But McNealy is understood that this is not the company's DNA IT vendors Oracle and Sunday market at low cost computers to schoolchildren. Computer, it is necessary to thin client business. Two years later, in September 1999, Sunday's Sunday insert Ray thin client. And that is what will meet Ellison Hardware dream.

Son "S server business has absolutely nothing to Oracle. Unix servers are a dying breed, and Intel / AMD based servers are good. Oracle almost certainly will rattle the company as possible, or sell it fully, perhaps for Fujitsu. But thin-client business is different. It is easy to see that future in a cloud of corporate computing and thin-client architecture that will spawn.

Ellison recounted meeting with President Clinton, and then in connection with bringing cheap PC market, with McNealy and Michael Spindler and Apple also participated.

"I asked the president to challenge our industry to build enough low-cost computer to establish offices in all children. And we have only a selected number - $ 500 seemed like the magic threshold," says Ellison. "And Scott McNealy took a very sarcastic and said" the hell with $ 500, where about $ 200? "Shut up, Scott."