The article is suppose to address upcoming release of Yukon and security issues facing MS. MS is obviously shifting focus from themselves to the rest of the database world.
Below is a snippet from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,522729,00.asp eWEEK: Oracle Corp. and others are pushing this idea of using Linux on Intel Corp. servers as a way to lower the cost of ownership in deployment. Do you take that seriously? Mangione: We take Linux very, very seriously. Where Linux could be and where it is today are two very, very different things. It's kind of funny: Linux is driving a wedge between Oracle and Sun [Microsystems Inc.] that I don't think ever would have happened. From my perspective, I always looked at them as two sides of the same coin. I mean they would go in together, they would sell together, [and] they'd sell to scale up. In some ways Linux is probably hurting Sun more than it is hurting even Microsoft at this point or any of the vendors in that's space? Oracle, again, realizes it's in a bit of a quandary. The proprietary Unixes on the proprietary hardware, you can see that world is going to come to an end. It's going to go the same way as the Unix workstation business. So Oracle has to do something for [the PC server] platform. They think Linux probably is the thing they want to do. Linux isn't really going to scale over 4-processors. Once you get into databases, scale-up and [deploy] big boxes, it really is databases that drive that business. I don't know what they're intentions are to really take Linux up to 8-proc or 16 proc. We're going to start seeing 32- and 64-proc PC servers coming out, and Linux just wasn't architected to scale on those platforms. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
