Follow me on TwitterOn Monday October 5, Sal Vella, IBM VP of DB2 development, introduced DB2 pureScale to the attendees of the IDUG Europe conference in Rome. Matt Huras, IBM Distinguished Engineer and the architect of DB2 pureScale, provided an in-depth technical description of DB2 pureScale in his conference session. Today, IBM followed up with a press release highlighting this new and exciting technology. Since press releases in general don’t provide much in a way of detail I decided to post some information on this blog based on what Sal Vella and Matt Huras talked about at IDUG Europe. This is not going [...]
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Larry Ellison is always a master of spin. Right now he is applying his considerable skill to hasten the completion of the acquisition of SUN. SUN, according to Larry, is bleeding US$100 million a month. If European Commission continues for probe his intentions around MySQL he stands to loose whatever is left of SUN. So, Larry Ellison does what Larry Ellison does best i.e. make outrageous statements in the press. His latest is “Oracle does not compete with MySQL”. I think Larry Ellison and European Union really need to see what MySQL website says: MySQL Enterprise Unlimited directly competes with [...] What happens when a large software company like Oracle acquires a struggling hardware company that has passed its prime like SUN? SUN customers who were already very concerned about the viability of their supplier get even more nervous. They put hardware acquisitions on hold and start talking to competitors. The sales of the struggling hardware maker take a plunge as in 30.6% drop of revenue in the latest quarter. What does Oracle do? Tries to reassure SUN hardware customers with advertisements like this: Oracle ad for SUN customers Looks like a great tactic; Oracle marketing has always been a well oiled [...] It is not often that we get great things for free; there is often a catch. In the case of the new “Read Currently Committed” semantics, there is no catch. It is a great feature that is not to be missed by anyone who needs to develop and support high volume transactional applications. The best part is there is nothing to pay for, no code to change, nothing to tune or administer. It is on by default and it just works. My fellow Canadians will surely recognize the popular tag line for Alexander Keiths Indian Pale Ale: “Those who like it like it a lot”. Well, it seems that it applies to DB2 Express-C. First, DB2 Express-C is free, free as in beer (in the open source lingo). Those who like it like it a lot It seems that no matter how many times we say it, people still don’t believe that they can can get something from IBM for free. For the skeptics out there, let me repeat, DB2 Express-C is free no matter how you want to use it. You [...] |
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