reason behind Oracle and HP love affair

2001-09-04 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I think I now know why... http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/nation/Hewlett_Packard_to_buy_Compaq+. shtml Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit

RE: reason behind Oracle and HP love affair

2001-09-04 Thread Christopher Spence
They just bought compaq, as of Today. $25 Billion. Damn it, I should have bought it first ;P "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 F

Re: reason behind Oracle and HP love affair

2001-09-06 Thread Brian McGraw
Actually, I've heard it was because HP's Carly was throwing free machines at Oracle (and Amazon, BTW) to get them to switch. Brian "Boivin, Patrice J" wrote: > I think I now know why... > > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/nation/Hewlett_Packard_to_buy_Compaq+. > shtml >

Re: reason behind Oracle and HP love affair

2001-09-06 Thread Jonathan Lewis
An interesting feature of HP which may make them less desirable to Oracle -Unlike other machines, the HP chips have no atomic 'compare and swap' call, and this could make a big difference to efficiency in Oracle 9, especially in the area of shared latches Look out for contention on the CAS Latc