Oracle Corp. will use new hardware to attack onetime partner Hewlett-Packard Co. in the market for server systems, said Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison
The jibe Thursday came as Oracle announced new computers based on the Sparc chip technology developed by Sun Microsystems—which Oracle acquired in January for $7.4 billion—as well as updates to other products. Some Sun customers initially had worried that Oracle would stop investing in the chips.
The jibe Thursday came as Oracle announced new computers based on the Sparc chip technology developed by Sun Microsystems—which Oracle acquired in January for $7.4 billion—as well as updates to other products. Some Sun customers initially had worried that Oracle would stop investing in the chips.
Mr.
Ellison said the new hardware—a "supercluster" of Sparc-based
servers—set a record for online transaction processing, a measure of
performance for running database software, "for any database running on
any computer at any time."
He said the record of more than 30 million transactions per minute on
Oracle's hardware compared with records of around 10 million and 4
million transactions per minute on hardware from rivals International Business Machines Corp. and H-P, respectively.
"We think the H-P machines are vulnerable. We think they're slow," Mr. Ellison said. "We're going to go after them in the marketplace with better software, better hardware and better people, and we're going to win market share."
Regarding IBM, Mr. Ellison said: "I like IBM, and I don't want to tease them very much."
An H-P spokeswoman, in a prepared statement, characterized the former Sun computer business as inferior to its own, and suggested Oracle was using outdated benchmark numbers for H-P to make its comparisons.
"H-P is the No. 1 provider of enterprise servers in the world," she said. "Larry Ellison bought a money-losing business that had steady market share declines for years, and which still ranks at the bottom of the market.
"Customers aren't fooled by outdated benchmarks, no matter what Oracle says. H-P's market share results prove it. Sun customers are running to H-P in droves because they recognize we deliver superior technology, performance and pricing."
The jibes were notable because Oracle and H-P were once close partners. In 2008, Oracle announced an exclusive partnership with H-P to offer a system bundled with Oracle database software—dubbed Exadata—only to drop that arrangement and substitute Sun hardware as a result of the acquisition.
Mr. Ellison has also taken aim at H-P in recent months for ousting its former CEO Mark Hurd—subsequently hired as Oracle's co-president—and choosing as Mr. Hurd's replacement Leo Apotheker, former chief executive of Oracle rival SAP AG.
"We think the H-P machines are vulnerable. We think they're slow," Mr. Ellison said. "We're going to go after them in the marketplace with better software, better hardware and better people, and we're going to win market share."
Regarding IBM, Mr. Ellison said: "I like IBM, and I don't want to tease them very much."
An H-P spokeswoman, in a prepared statement, characterized the former Sun computer business as inferior to its own, and suggested Oracle was using outdated benchmark numbers for H-P to make its comparisons.
"H-P is the No. 1 provider of enterprise servers in the world," she said. "Larry Ellison bought a money-losing business that had steady market share declines for years, and which still ranks at the bottom of the market.
"Customers aren't fooled by outdated benchmarks, no matter what Oracle says. H-P's market share results prove it. Sun customers are running to H-P in droves because they recognize we deliver superior technology, performance and pricing."
The jibes were notable because Oracle and H-P were once close partners. In 2008, Oracle announced an exclusive partnership with H-P to offer a system bundled with Oracle database software—dubbed Exadata—only to drop that arrangement and substitute Sun hardware as a result of the acquisition.
Mr. Ellison has also taken aim at H-P in recent months for ousting its former CEO Mark Hurd—subsequently hired as Oracle's co-president—and choosing as Mr. Hurd's replacement Leo Apotheker, former chief executive of Oracle rival SAP AG.
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