im not 100% certain. I believe has to do with using 'of the shelf parts' to slap together your own servers instead of paying for expensive ones. You set them up as a 'grid' like structure, so if one CPU fails you can failover to others.
I think thats what it is...
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> Date: 2003/10/16 Thu PM 12:19:40 EDT
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> What are blade servers? Could the listers please shed some light on it....
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> thanks,
> Murali.
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> I was at the Wash DC Oracle conference yesterday and the key note address
> was about the future direction of Oracle. It was pretty positive about Grid
> technology and blade servers. Anyone out there have any opinions?
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> It seems like this technology is probably several years away from being
> used in the business and government contracting world. Most places you see
> it are in academia.
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