Re: HP or Sun for Oracle
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 14:23:16 +0000
Message-ID: <781852347snz_at_sambusys.demon.co.uk>
In article <37b0dg$rlf_at_uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>
timr_at_cerrera.uk.sun.com "Tim Read - Sun Linlithgow - Principal SE and DB" writes:
> ----> Paul Beardsell
> And I'm interested: what legitimate reason could Oracle have to show
> Sun its source code? And vice versa. Do they do out of a spirit of
> openness?
>
> <----
>
> So that both parties can tune their products w.r.t the other and thereby
> optimise the overall performance.
>
> Tim
> ---
For instance, there is nothing that Sun can do to its OS improve the performance of an Oracle sort that would require access to Oracle source. Any improvement to the execution of the compare or move opcodes would favour Sybase just as much as Oracle. Similarly with any change to the kernel's lseek() routine.
Consider also: What can Sun tell Oracle about its product that will not also make Oracle run quicker on another Unix?
If Oracle and Sun do have access to each other's source then I guess that it of little use to either party. More than likely, IN(H?)O, that this mutual access to source is more use as a marketing tool than anywhere else. My guess is that at a meeting between Oracle and Sun senior managers they agreed that it would be a "good idea" to share source code.
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