it's not just Oracle, this tends to be a trend in all businesses. Just
as there are fads in clothing (shorter hemlines, longer hemlines etc),
there seem to be fads in the "right" way to manage your computer
systems.
I've seen the cycle turn a number of times "centralize all software and
systems, one data center to serve them all, standards cross-company"
then suddenly it's "decentralize, one big center makes no sense, we
don't get the things we need fast enough from them"
- Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com> wrote:
> Interesting news. Makes me wonder though. Remember when
> Oracle moved to support client-server computing? Now Larry
> derides client-server and distributed computing saying
> that it's cheaper to have just one big system. How many
> times have you heard Larry talk about how Oracle's
> consolidated their email servers? Makes me wonder whether
> five years down the road Larry will be telling us that it's
> "silly to run a database on 50 cheap boxes" because it's
> much easier to administer one big one.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jonathan Gennick
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>
> Thursday, January 31, 2002, 2:36:21 PM, you wrote:
> AMG0> Ellison says Oracle's 'whole business' to run on Linux
>
> AMG0> The Oracle chairman and CEO said the company will replace three
> Unix
> AMG0> servers
> AMG0> that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster
> of Intel
> AMG0> Corp.
> AMG0> servers running Linux.
>
> AMG0>
>
http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO67867_NLTAM%2C00.html
>
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