This originally started out as a much longer rant about EMC/VMWare vs. Oracle in general, but WordPress managed to eat the draft, and there’s no way I’m going to rewrite the whole thing, so I’m going to instead write a series of blog posts, each one covering a point in EMC’s recent salvo against Oracle [...]
George Zachary is a partner at Charles River Ventures, and at the recent TechCrunch Cloud Computing Summit, he said, “Cloud is the new dotcom”. This statement has inspired a variety of responses, but one I’d like to highlight is Reuven Cohen’s. Reuven is the Founder of Enomaly, a company that makes a software product designed [...]
After responding to Jeremy’s message on Oracle-L, it got me reading his blog. On one post, he asks if OCFS2 has a future given the rumored introduction of “ASMfs“, and if it’s worth considering for various purposes, specifically:
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database binaries (vs local files or NFS)
diag top (11g) or admin tree (10g) (vs local files or NFS)
archived [...]
There was an interesting post to the Oracle-L mailing list today about using OS packages in cluster database environments. A quick snippet from the post:
In my day job, I rarely get the opportunity to get as “hands on” as I used to – I still work with Oracle, and of course I still work with our software every day. But the days when I get to roll up my sleeves and dig into a UNIX, storage, or networking problem [...]
Chuck Hollis, one of EMC’s senior execs and frequent blogger, has posted some odds and ends, but the one item that got my dander up was a little blurb on Exadata, Oracle’s storage server appliance. To quote Chuck:
“Oracle’s DW behemoth was announced with great fanfare last September. My pointed skepticsm even resulted in a minor [...]