When I was last year in Boston in Netezza seeing all high performant NPS systems and buying the same day iPhone and MacMini I told to myself: well this is the great day- I have seen the most sophisticated large appliance – (Netezza NPS) and I own also most advanced smallest appliance in the world – Apple iPhone –all this in one day. “We believe the best user experience is when all the pieces in the system are engineered to work together.” Larry Ellison said in recent interview. Apple and Netezza knew this from the beginning – they need to design and control hardware to be able to perform much more faster than traditional concept on general purpose HW. Oracle realized this as well and entered hardware last year with Oracle Exadata based on HP hardware, however reaching only 10 time faster boost in performance. But it looks like Oracle is very serious about the concept of integrated HW and SW Appliance – recent announcement of Oracle acquiring Sun might have probably tremendous impact on the whole DWA (Data Warehouse Appliance) market. Now with Oracle taking Sun with its hardware division, operating system, Oracle has got finally all pieces to build up from ground to up database machine.
Curiously enough Greenplun – yet another player in DWA market is using Sun Fire X4500 for its DWA. That will soon mean Greenplun is “powered by Oracle” J . Also Greenplun was classified by Gartner magic quadrant as “Visionary” for 2008 . With Oracle – Greenplun ‘partnership’ this might possibly bring Greenplun upper to “Leaders” quadrant. Sun itself with MySQL was positioned in niche players in DWA Magic Quadrant. All of that will push Oracle in the leaders quadrant more close to the top player “Terradata”.
what Mr. Ellison said in interview about plans with Sun here:
…"we are definitely not going to exit the hardware business. While most hardware businesses are low-margin, companies like Apple and Cisco enjoy very high-margins because they do a good job of designing their hardware and software to work together. If a company designs both hardware and software, it can build much better systems than if they only design the software. That's why Apple's iPhone is so much better than Microsoft phones."
"..Some of our competitors, Teradataand Netezza for example, were delivering pre-configuredhardware/software systems, while we were just deliveringsoftware. The combination of hardware and software hassignificant performance advantages for data warehousingapplications. We had to respond with our own hardware/softwarecombination, the Exadata database machine. Oracle's Exadatadatabase machine runs data warehousing applications much faster-- at least ten-times faster than Oracle software running onconventional hardware. All the hardware and software pieces,database to disk, are included. You just plug it in and go -- nosystems integration required."
Simply annoying. You know that gorgeous message saying “memory couldn’t be wrrrrriten press OK to exit or Cancel to debug…”. I thought that TNSLISTENER of Oracle9 could say something more…My all classical reapairments (like reboot, reinstall) came to nought. Well I tried to press cancel and see disassembler complaining that memory around zero can’t be read. Of Course ! edx was 0
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