Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!rip!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:16:05 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1071252871.179158@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <87e15a44.0312120854.76e2319d@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <87e15a44.0312120854.76e2319d@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:250003 sal wrote: > Hello, > > It’s curious but I can’t find any word about Grid in documentation > of just appeared 10g OAS. Probably, the same situation will be > with upcoming 10g database. > May I make conclusion that Oracle 10g Grid is only marketing hype ? > I think that Oracle’s Grid means a big RAC (former OPS). > -- > SL You can conclude anything you wish but I have been testing 10g for months and I have reason to believe you would be incorrect. Of course Grid is an extension of RAC. And of course the name has changed. It allows the person at Oracle that is VP of Product Renaming something to do. But there is more to Grid than just that name change. Exactly what is it you expected on an unreleased product? -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)