Microsoft: Oracle will take us back to 1970s hell
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Microsoft's server and tools chief Bob Muglia has chided Oracle for peddling a return to "1960s computing," accusing its rival of going against industry trends and backing a dying and expensive operating-system architecture.
He knocked Oracle for going down a vertical route of integrated and proprietary hardware and software that would deny customers choice and take us right back to an age that was anything other than golden and was renowned for just one thing: stagnation.
Muglia also slammed virtualization rival VMware for exaggerating the cost savings from Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
A dying and expensive operating-system, eh? Good thing Muglia said that he was talking about Sparc/Solaris, because I would have guessed that he meant Windows; same when he talks about proprietary products. Others, like Apple, take that hardware/software locking way further, denying customers pretty much every choice there is (once the product has been bought). And if virtualization is also on Muglia's list of pet peeves, how come MS offers Hyper-V?