On Monday, April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun Microsystems. Since then there has been much speculation and question raised around numerous areas of the deal. There is an official FAQ that discusses many areas, but I thought I would highlight three that seem to be fairly popular around...
Posts Tagged ‘ HP Oracle Database Machine ’
The Best Benchmarketing I've Seen Yet: Measure BI Queries In Milliseconds
After posting about how ridiculous some of the benchmarketing claims that database vendors are making, Dave Menninger, VP of Marketing & Product Management at Vertica posted a comment that one of their customers reported a 40,400x gain in one query (this of course is after I openly joked about the 16,200x Vertica claim). So...
Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Recap
Oracle OpenWorld 2008 is now in the books and it surely was a busy and exciting one. The launch of Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine was the highlight for me and I hope for many of you as well. Real-World Performance Group Presentations This year the Real-World Performance Group...
Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine
If you haven’t been under a rock you know that Larry Ellison announced the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. There seems to be quite a bit of interest and excitement about the product and I for one will say that I am extremely excited about...