RE: Oracle ventures into the O/S market.....?

From: Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:20:16 -0400
Message-ID: <C0A5E31718FC064A91E9FD7BE2F081B13631AA@exchange.gridapp.com>

My point was just that the days when Oracle cheerfully sat on top of an OS, completely relying on the OS for every piece of functionality outside of running an ACID-compliant database storage engine, are long gone.

Matt

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Kevin Closson Sent: Mon 4/17/2006 4:10 PM
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Subject: RE: Oracle ventures into the O/S market.....?

This list does not make Oracle an OS. Try implementing any of that stuff without an OS underneath and the point will be crystal clear..

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	I have a talk I give at OUGs around the country about database

automation that makes a few general points on this subject:

Oracle's database is getting closer to an OS all the time. We can look at some of the features that Oracle has internally like:
- Cluster framework (CRS)
- IP and network management (VIPs - yes, part of the CRS, I know)
- Built-in memory management (automatic SGA, etc. tuning)
- Built-in storage/volume management (ASM)
- Filesystem structures (tablespaces, OCFS, etc.)

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