La strategia stile mainframe di Oracle

Ieri sera Oracle ha annunciato la nuova strategia/roadmap per SPARC e un nuovo SuperCluster capace di gestire più di 30 Milioni di tpmC! L’evento è stato presentato da Larry Ellison (CEO) and Jon Fowler (executive VP systems). l’annuncio Hmmm! Lo sappiamo tutti, il tpm-C è uno benchmark datato, stupido e poco realistico ma è ancora usato per provare la potenza teorica dei DB...

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Oracle's mainframe style lock-in strategy

Last night Oracle announced their SPARC roadmap/strategy and a new so-called SuperCluster capable to run more than 30M TpmC! The event was hosted by Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO) and Jon Fowler (executive VP systems). about the announcement Hmmm! We all know, tpm-C is a very stupid, old and non-realistic benchmark but it’s still used to prove the theoretical horse power of DB machines,...

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Oracle and the “iPhone approach” to enterprise IT

Oracle announced a new Exa-thing during last Oracle Open World: Exalogic. All the week was spent to send messages to “partners”, competitors and customers about how Oracle is beautiful, shiny, powerful and magnificent. (indeed, Jobs and Apple send similar messages to customers and fans… but it’s another story) The message that Larry and his people are trying to send us is...

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