Re: Oracle Linux/Virtualization Software

From: The Boss <usenet_at_No.Spam.Please.invalid>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:49:58 +0100
Message-ID: <474df099$0$245$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

DA Morgan wrote:
> hpuxrac wrote:
>
>> Oracle claims their VM is 3 times as fast as anything else. Sounds
>> pretty fishy to many of us.
>
> But, of course, you haven't actually put it into a lab environment
> and checked it. Demonstrating something to be true or false requires
> more work than just dismissing it out of hand.

Well, I would love to see Oracle demonstrating their claim to be true. 3 times as fast as IBM's zVM? Don't think Oracle can show lab proven evidence of that.

>
> So far we've got you on record dismissing Oracle on Mac OSX without
> ever seeing it much less testing it.
>
> Dismissing Oracle's Chief Security Office's briefing without attending
> it.

He didn't.
He quoted someone else's opinion.

>
> And now Oracle's VM without any hands-on experience.

He didn't.
He questioned a unsubstantiated (marketing) claim by Oracle.

>
> Reminds me a lot of some people promoting BHCR and index rebuilds as
> tuning.

BCHR...

-- 
Jeroen

Received on Wed Nov 28 2007 - 16:49:58 CST