Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says that once his company acquires Sun, he will stay out of the high-volume, low-margin server space currently dominated by HP and Dell. Instead, Oracle will focus Suns SPARC/Solaris and Intel-based systems aimed at the high end. At the same time, those systems will be a foundation of Oracles converged data center strategy, which will tightly integrate servers, storage and networking using software from Oracle and Sun. Other vendors, including Cisco, HP, Dell and IBM, also offer converged data center solutions.
– Once it gets Sun Microsystems under its wing, Oracle will not
compete in the high-volume, low-margin server market, ceding that space
to Hewlett-Packard and Dell, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Instead, the software giant will focus Suns SPARC/Solaris and
Intel-based systems on the high-…