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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="contentboxhead3" colspan="2" style="padding-bottom: 10px;" align="left">But Oracle lacks hardware experience</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-right: 10px;" valign="top" width="300">Image: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?photoid=4498328 </td> <td valign="top" width="410"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="more">Image: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid=1784493 Mail to friend</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="normtxt" colspan="2" style="padding-top: 7px;" valign="top" width="100%" height="250">Q. Your management team has no experience with delivering hardware. There is a lot of risk in going into an unfamiliar business.
A. Obviously, we want to hold on to Sun's experienced team of first-rate hardware engineers. For years, Sun has led the industry in building and delivering innovative systems. For example, Sun was the first company to deliver systems built on a multi-core processor -- what Sun called the Niagara chip - and the industry followed. Oracle has a good track record of retaining the engineering talent from acquired companies; Sun will be no different.
In addition, over the last couple of years Oracle gained a lot of experience developing and delivering our first integrated hardware and software system, the Exadata database machine. We have lots of hardware experience inside of Oracle. Hundreds of Oracle's engineers came from systems companies like IBM and HP. Even I started my Silicon Valley career working for a hardware company that worked with Fujitsu to design and build the first IBM compatible mainframe. </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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