Oracle’s $10M Database Server Challenge

Despite rumors and innuendo, customers of Sun Microsystems should be excited about the future under Oracle management, not concerned about it. That was the message from Sun’s cofounder and chairman, Scott McNealy, delivered during the opening of the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Sunday night.

If that reassurance isn’t enough for customers, Oracle’s brash CEO Larry Ellison took the stage to say he’s willing to back up the combined company’s promises with cold, hard cash.

As a result, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is launching a new program in which it promises to pay customers $10 million if a Sun configuration isn’t at least twice as fast as a comparable IBM server configuration.

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