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Larry’s ship

January 29, 2010, 2:19 pm

Oracle recently made a set of presentations which outlined what their strategy was in terms of hardware, software, markets etc.. Each speaker had a slide show to accompany their talks, and each of the slideshows was quite extensive.

Speaker Webcast Presentation
Charles Phillips: Welcome and Oracle + Sun: Transforming the Industry Webcast (43 min.) presentation (PDF)
John Fowler: Hardware Strategy Webcast (39 min.) presentation (PDF)
Thomas Kurian: Software Strategy Webcast (48 min.) presentation (PDF)
Edward Screven: Operating Systems and Virtualization Webcast (19 min.) presentation (PDF)
Juergen Rottler: Customer Service and Support Strategy Webcast (23 min.) presentation (PDF)
Jeff Epstein: Operational Strategy Webcast (8 min.) presentation (PDF)
Larry Ellison: Oracle + Sun Webcast (59 min.) presentation (PDF)

Well, all but one. Larry’s!

His slideshow has one slide; a picture of a racing yacht with Oracle and Sun logos on it! This for me sums up his character. Hes got a ton of energy and sees his company more like something that he needs to guide and be successful with, and at the same time looks good whilst doing it!

In this respect, Oracle have made it very clear what they want to do with the portfolio they have acquired from Sun, and this does include investing heavily in SPARC processors. Given the kind of performance we saw with the T1000 on Heanets review, I’m personally looking forward to the day when Oracle manage to further commoditise this cool hardware :)

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