Is Oracle serious about hardware? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

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Enterprise Irregular Anshu Sharma mentioned on our group mailing list that Oracle may have valued Sun’s hardware business at zero. Yup. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Sharma notes:

• Oracle keeps all software parts of Sun.
• Sells off or shuts down hardware business with bad margins. Perhaps Oracle partner HP would want a few chunks. EMC may want some storage lines. And any chip maker would want the Sparc intellectual property. If the market rebounds private equity may be interested. 
• Oracle would hang on to a few hardware lines to build its uber-database-data center machine. 
• The HP Exadata machine with Oracle keeps going.

Is Oracle serious about hardware? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com