Re: Larry's keynote at OOW 08

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:47:16 +0100
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Perhaps, he just meant the first this millenium... Raw Iron wasn't a staggering success either and seems to be an almost identical idea ten years down the road. Of course the implementation may be fantastic and the tech maybe great, but it's not even the first database appliance he's announced let alone hardware/software product.

Niall

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I was laughing inside when Larry mentioned that this was his first
> hardware/software product. Anyone remeber the failed nCube and Network
> Computer products?
>
> I believe the name is a one up on Tera-data (exa vs tera)
>
> "Wait and see"
>
> John
>
>
> On 9/24/08, Raj <sanstorage_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wanted to get feedback on Oracle's new Exadata! Larry must love all
> > those CPU cores $$. Will have to wait and see on how this plays out as
> > compared to a traditional SAN/ NAS. Can't imagine to have another
> > footprint just for Oracle alone!
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/22/08, steve montgomerie <stmontgo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> We're using OEL 4.5 with 10.2.0.4 in a 4 node primary / single node
> >> standby
> >> config.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to place nice with GRID control but it's not working! I
> create
> >> a
> >> copy of the db
> >> using the DG interface in GRID, FTP to the new location and then use the
> >> GRID to
> >> add a physical standby using the backup copy I just took. It rolls right
> >> along, restoring files
> >> and when gets close to the end it fails on 'create standby' throwing
> >>
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Error: ORA-16532 (ORA-16532)
> >> Text: Data Guard broker configuration does not exist
> >>
> >> it looks to me that it creates the dg config on one node and does
> >> not for the the remaining three nodes on the primary.
> >>
> >> I have a SR open - just holding out hope that someone might have run in
> >> to this before.
> >>
> >> steve
> >>
> >
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