Re: Ken Jacobs

May he rest in piece. I have met him once, on Oracle user group in Florence, in the late 80's or early 90's. It's been a long time ago and I don't remember the exact dates. I have also seen him on stage on the famous conference in Zurich, when he was announcing Oracle 6.2 on VAX clusters. For those who don't remember, Oracle 6.2 changed the name in version 7i to "Oracle Parallel Server" or OPS for short. Ken Jacobs was instrumental in developing OPS and knew it better than anybody else. in Oracle 9i OPS changed the name to "Really Annoying Configuration" or RAC for short. To his credit, Ken Jacobs didn't have much to do with CRS and ASM, which are monstrosities under the hood of any RAC system. Again, for those who don't know, ASM was developed to stop competitors from using Oracle's cluster technology. That is why the open source OCFS was ultimately abandoned. Oracle needed something proprietary and they got it with ASM.

Then, there was a guy who has developed Exadata and then left to EMC where he developed Greenplum, an Exadata killer. He is the only Oracle Ace ever to be stripped of his title. But that's another story. Hopefully, he will be alive and well for years to come. These days, he works for AWS. I mentioned him because in his early years he has also developed one of the first cluster file systems after DEC, called "Polyserve" which was way, way better than OCFS.

On 2/17/21 4:12 PM, Clay Jackson (cjackson) wrote:
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> Those of you who had anything to do with Oracle Database back in the
> early 1980’s through 2010 likely crossed paths with or at least had
> heard of  Ken Jacobs, Oracle’s very own Dr. DBA. Ken formed the
> inaugural Database PM team in the late ‘80s and went on to hold other
> strategic roles before retiring from Oracle
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> in 2010.
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> Sadly, Ken suffered a pulmonary embolism and passed away last Friday
> at the age of 71.
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> If you would like to pay tribute to Ken, please join his virtual
> memorial service this Sunday Feb. 21^st at 2pm MST / 1pm PST:
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