[geeks] Open Solaris, while I've been asleep.

[velociraptor]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Kurt Huhn <artisan at k-huhn.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 06:55:23AM +0200, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:30:28PM -0500, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
>>
>> >That would be very shortsighted of them.  A -whole lot- of people run
>> >Oracle on AIX, Linux, and Windows very happily.  Those people pay silly
>> >money to Oracle for that "privilege".
>>
>> I don't think so at all. If they do nothing to IMPROVE the performance of
>> Oracle under those operating systems, but significantly improve the
>> performance of Oracle under Solaris by tightly integrating the operating
>> system with the application people would want to move.
>>
>> I can only speculate the numbers, but I assume something like 2%-3% would
>> not make much difference to customers, 5% would show some movement and
>> 10% or more would make a big change.
>>
>>
>
> Ellison has already stated that this is a goal, and that Oracle has plans
to
> offer an Oracle "appliance" that runs a tightly integrated set of hardware,
> Solaris, and Oracle.  I seem to recall reading an interview where he
> indicated that they were just beginning this process, and they were already
> seeing significant speed increases.  It will be interesting to what they
come
> up with.

The appliance already exists, it's called an Exadata, costs ridiculous
amounts of money, and runs (wait for it) Linux on Sun x86 hardware.  I
know, our mgmt bought one, oddly enough.

=Nadine=