Killed the customer based
With Oracle purchasing Sun, they effectivly killed off any software/hardware partnerships that where out there.
If Sun where still independent would they have maintained a good partnership with SAP such that a HANA port would have been on the cards (like it is with IBM power).
Would they have had a greater relationship with developers who would have embraced SPARC/Solaris as a development platform.
The second Oracle came on board the software providers went, urgh not a friendly competitor/partner, I'll stick to x86 with Power as our only RISC based system.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
