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... dramatically improve hardware performance by tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware Eh? The hardware and its performance stands alone. Adding software cannot improve the hardware. Only the software performance may be increased by better hardware utilization.
Now, on the same computer, reformat the hard using ext4 and write the same files.
See the difference?
"Dramatically improve Sun's hardware performance...." I think they're going to use the CPU simulator Sun used to design a processor (the T1) optimized for MySQL (I think it was) to make a new processor optimized for Oracle. Just my 2 cents.
... dramatically improve hardware performance by tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware Eh? The hardware and its performance stands alone. Adding software cannot improve the hardware. Only the software performance may be increased by better hardware utilization.
It is obvious what this means. Oracle up to 10g accessed NFS filesystems via the OS. They were mounted just as normal filesystems would be. Oracle 11g connects directly to the NFS server, completely bypassing the OS filesystem layer.
Please Oracle make ZFS GPL as Btrfs is. :)
No mention of MySQL anywhere in that declaration, which is interesting given the EU's regulatory body concerns.
Sun also had a competing product at the time of their MySQL AB acquisition: Their Postgresql consulting/support group. Nothing happened to it when they bought MySQL AB. Large companies can sustain heterogeny.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not necessarily - the could have simply worried about their customers on Sparc falling into the hands of IBM/HP salesmen with DB2/SQLServer salesmen in tow.
Right, but I expected them to slowly phase Sparc and Solaris out, and offer their existing Sparc customers discounts to upgrade.
Oracle will probably package their own hardware by leveraging Sun's resources. You will probably be able to purchase a Sun-Oracle SPARC system and have a choice of Solaris or Linux (which also runs on SPARC) to run your Oracle database on. Otherwise you can run Oracle on Linux if you aren't buying into their integrated hardware solutions. I don't see how they would have to drop everything without being able to make it work together.
Please Oracle make ZFS GPL as Btrfs is. :)
Or even better BSD so that BSDs can integrate it, too.
... dramatically improve hardware performance by tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware Eh? The hardware and its performance stands alone. Adding software cannot improve the hardware. Only the software performance may be increased by better hardware utilization.
Write a million 1 megabyte files on a hard disk formatted with FAT32. Now, on the same computer, reformat the hard using ext4 and write the same files. See the difference?
... dramatically improve hardware performance by tightly integrating Oracle software with Sun hardware Eh? The hardware and its performance stands alone. Adding software cannot improve the hardware. Only the software performance may be increased by better hardware utilization.
Write a million 1 megabyte files on a hard disk formatted with FAT32. Now, on the same computer, reformat the hard using ext4 and write the same files. See the difference?