Earlier today Oracle announced that it is discontinuing development for Itanium all together . Oracle claims that this move was prompted by Intel’s direction away from Itanium; a statement Intel denies. It is hard to argue that Itanium has not been a resounding succes in the marketplace. However, it is quite obvious that Oracle’s real target is HP. Itanium is simply a convenient weapon. In his move for world domination, Larry Elison is leaving a lot of Oracle + HP customers with expensive boat anchors. [...]
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My all time most read posts are about comparing DB2 Express-C and Oracle XE. Even though the first comparison was done way back in June 2008 this blog still gets hits on it every day. Oracle and DB2 – An Architectural Comparison. As popular as they are, these comparisons do not compare the technical architecture of DB2 and Oracle. So, I am hoping that this upcoming webcast will satisfy the need for deep technical comparison. This will not be a marketing pitch of why DB2 is better than Oracle; just a side-by-side technical look at the architecture. If you are at all interested in the subject, I recommend that you register for this free webinar as the space is filling up very fast. [...]
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Oracle has a lot to loose if, or more precisely when, Cloud Computing goes mainstream. Oracle can’t rely on product leadership to impress your line of business executives. Your Oracle salesperson will be singing you the sweet hymns of Exalogic and “cloud in the box”. She will be telling you how you should get it in to the ELA that she is working on. I am not saying that that big box with an X on it is not an impressive piece of hardware. However, if your project calls for “Cloud Computing” you should look elsewhere. Beware of new prophets with a hastily developed vision of the cloud, the one that is no cloud at all. It may have “Elastic Cloud” written on the outside but it stretches your budget $1 million at a time and it never shrinks. It will make you pay upfront and will have your Oracle sales person come back every year to get their customary 22% renewal fee. And you that old saying “nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle”, well, when it comes to the cloud the jury is still out on that. [...]
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Oracle Exalogic is a closed proprietary system that propagates the expensive IT practices of over purchasing capacity leading to low utilization rates. It lacks the required elasticity and consumption based pricing, and it does nothing to reduce operating costs through self-service. It may very well be a great hardware box, I don’t have an opinion on that, but there is definitely no cloud in that box. [...]
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As the open source faithful have gathered in Portland for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Canonical, the company behind an ever popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced that it has paired up the latest version of the free DB2 Express-C v9.7 with the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to deliver a free enterprise-grade cloud database appliance.
Not that kind of an appliance
Database appliances, especially for data warehousing, are all the rage. These database appliances deliver a package of hardware and database software that are put together and optimized by the DBMS vendor. Most of the industry [...]
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