Ask the Oracle about hardware futures.

The pressure on Big Blue to do something will come through the quad-core "Tukwila" Itanium arriving from Hewlett-Packard and Intel, which was pushed out to mid-2009 as this year was getting rolling. Tukwila is a year or more behind schedule,

====> Tukwila will not ship in systems until November, after HP's fiscal year end.

====> The HP reps have been telling customers this already.

====> Not only will the chips have twice the cores expect Oracle to also increase the multiplier to .75 so you will need three licenses per chip instead of 1.

Sun Microsystems' 16-core "Rock" UltraSparc-RK chip is at least a year behind, if not more.

====> Rock is shelved, ask Mark Tremblay who was fired and now works for Microsoft. Seriously look at all the systems Sun currently sells and you can see why they cannot make money. Expect Oracle to eliminate over half of the models.