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Announcement: Hotsos Symposium 2010!
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — Hotsos Symposium is considered by many to be one of the best Oracle-related educational events each year.... This is just a quick blog entry to direct attention to this year’s event. Tom Kyte will be this year’s Keynote and Tanel Poder is hosting Training Day 2010. The current list of speakers can ... (more) Announcement: Hotsos Symposium 2010!
EU Extends Oracle-Sun Deadline
EU Extends Oracle-Sun Deadline
maximumpc.com — Oracle will have to wait a little bit longer before deciding on its next step in its... planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun. That's because European Union regulators on Friday said they have extended the deadline of its review until January 27 in response to Oracle asking for more time "in ... (more) EU Extends Oracle-Sun Deadline
Oracle and SpringSource Launch "Project Gemini"
Oracle and SpringSource Launch "Project Gemini"
maximumpc.com — Oracle, in collaboration with SpringSource, has proposed a new Eclipse project called "Enterprise Modules," or "Project Gemini"... if going by the platform's codename. The project is intended to provide a home for subprojects integrating existing Java enterprise technologies ... (more) Oracle and SpringSource Launch "Project Gemini"
Words About Oracle Direct NFS On Sun Storage 7410 And Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT) For ...
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — My old friend Glenn Fawcett and I have been teaming up on Sun Oracle Database Machine DW/BI/OLTP... performance engineering work, but last week Glenn told me he had an opportunity to put a late model Sun T5240 CMT system through the OLTP wringer. After consulting with me about workload options I ... (more) Words About Oracle Direct NFS On Sun Storage 7410 And ...
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Includes The Orion I/O Test Tool, But You Better Get That Full ...
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — As Miladin Modrakovic recently pointed out, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes, for the first time ever,... a copy of the ORacle IO Numbers (ORION) disk throughput test tool. The executable has been put into $ORACLE_HOME/bin. This is just a quick blog entry to point out that the executable does ... (more) Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Includes The Orion I/O ...
Linux Free Memory: Is It Free Or Reclaimable? Yes. When I want Free Memory, I Want Free Memory!
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — I have certain performance test harnesses that expect to have a lot of free memory. The test... harnesses produce a lot of output that facilitates my performance analysis. The output is in the form of text files and pipe-delimited files (to be used by SQL*Loader) and CSV files which I upload to ... (more) Linux Free Memory: Is It Free Or Reclaimable? Yes. When ...
What Will Oracle Do with MySQL?
What Will Oracle Do with MySQL?
maximumpc.com — One of the challenges facing Oracle in its $7.4 billion takeover bid of Sun Microsystems is in... convincing the European Commission that it plans to devote just as much attention to the free, open-source MySQL database as it will on any of its own costlier parallel database products. So far ... (more) What Will Oracle Do with MySQL?
Announcing a YouTube Video Demonstration of Sun Oracle Database Machine
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — There is a nice, flashy video of the Open World 2009 Keynote area demo of a full-rack... Sun Oracle Database Machine based on Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server V2. The demo shows a graphical user interface that drives the queries and monitors throughput by sampling Oracle Database performance ... (more) Announcing a YouTube Video Demonstration of Sun Oracle ...
HP Proliant DL180 G5 With Nehalem EP and PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory?
HP Proliant DL180 G5 With Nehalem EP and PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory?
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — Please forgive…I just can’t resist a tongue-in-cheek post after seeing this. According to this HP webpage for... the Proliant DL180 G5 , there is a new flavor of server and new flavor of Nehalem processor for that matter. As the following screen shot shows the G5 now supports 2 Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) ... (more) HP Proliant DL180 G5 With Nehalem EP and PC2-5300 DDR2 ...
Sun Oracle Database Machine: The Million Oracle Database IOPS Machine or Marketing Hype? Part II.
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — In my recent post entitled Sun Oracle Database Machine: The Million Oracle Database IOPS Machine or Marketing... Hype? Part I, I started a discussion about why this million IOPS-capable platform is interesting to Oracle deployments that don’t require quite (or nowhere near) that much I/O. Since I, ... (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine: The Million Oracle Database ...
It's Official: EU Objects to Oracle-Sun Deal
It's Official: EU Objects to Oracle-Sun Deal
maximumpc.com — Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, the European Union on Monday formally objected to Oracle's... proposed takeover of Sun. The EU's hard stance could throw a wrench in the $7.4 billion deal that had already been approved by U.S. officials. The sole sticking point for the EU is that the ... (more) It's Official: EU Objects to Oracle-Sun Deal
Sun Oracle Database Machine Video Demonstration…Again.
kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This is just a quick blog entry to point out that the video I blogged about in... my recent post entitled Announcing a YouTube Video Demonstration of Sun Oracle Database Machine is once again online. It had been pulled by the owner for some rough-edge editing. (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine Video Demonstration…Again.
Oracle's New Support Portal Draws Heavy Criticism
Oracle's New Support Portal Draws Heavy Criticism
maximumpc.com — The troubles just keep piling on for Oracle as of late. Earlier this week, the European Union... formally objected the company's takeover bid of Sun, and if that wasn't enough to deal with, a bunch of existing Oracle users are voicing complaints with the vendor's new My Oracle Support portal.  ... (more) Oracle's New Support Portal Draws Heavy Criticism