pdxkevinc_at_gmail.com wrote:
>>> SteveThe question I would like to append to this is "has PolyServe patched
>> things up with Oracle?" It wasn't that long ago that Oracle's attitude
>> toward PolyServe made PolyServe a risky choice. I've seen no evidence
>> that anything has changed.
>
> Oracle is hostile to every software player so it wasn't as though
> PolyServe had to "patch things up". We have always done what we do and
> that is to make a solid cluster platform that hosts RAC quite nicely.
> The evidence you might seek, however, comes in 2 forms. First, Oracle
> created the Third Party Cluster Filesystem Validation and Clusterware
> Compatibility Program and second, we went through the testing and are
> listed as a Validated platform in the RAC Technology Compatibility
> Matrix (RTCM) which you can get to through Metalink->Certify
>
> Beyond the Metalink Certify (RTCM), here is a little more background:
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/oce/oce_fact_sheet.htm
> http://www.oaktable.net/getFile/139
>
> PolyServe and Oracle are both signatories to TSAnet. There can be no
> finger pointing. I'll put it to you this way, you wont open more calls
> with Oracle support because of PolyServe. On the other hand, you will
> still continue to open loads of TARs with Oracle for all the reasons
> that have nothing to do with PolyServe...
>
> There are a large number of high end production PolyServe customers
> running RAC (e.g., NW Airlines, Putnam, Gannett Media, Close Premium
> Finance, DoD, etc) and if their day to day production experience was a
> train wreck, don't you think a simple Metalink search would reveal
> that? One of those sites has 100 of our clusters and the smallest of
> those is 10 Nodes (FWIW).
>
> kevinclosson.wordpress.com
>
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
>> (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
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Daniel A. Morgan
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Wed Nov 29 2006 - 11:33:18 CST
