In article <1074753875.337856_at_yasure>, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu says...
> I learned some information about 10g in a public forum from an Oracle
> employee today so it gives me "permission" to state it here though to
> some this may not be new information.
>
> There seems to be a lot of confusion about RAC and GRID with some people
> thinking GRID is just the new name for RAC and that this is a renaming
> of an existing, or modification of an existing, capability: It is not!
>
> 10g will have RAC. 10g will have GRID. You will be able to install and
> use 10g without either, with RAC only, with GRID only, and with both.
>
> The differences between RAC and GRID are profound as they refer to two
> entirely different and separate technologies.
>
> I wish I could say more, perhaps I can and don't know it, but this
> should all become general public knowledge very soon. And I think it is
> going to knock some people over when they understand what Oracle has done.
>
>
At Oracle World in Paris Larry said (by video) that GRID is the über-
term for the cluster (includig hardware, databases, cluster software,
management software) and RAC is the technology that ties it all
together. I guess things have changed?
Received on Thu Jan 22 2004 - 02:02:15 CST
