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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 22, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 38
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Special Features:
SUN'S MCNEALY TAKES JABS AT DELL,
ENSURES ORACLE INTEGRATION
Kindness was put aside at OracleWorld as Sun Chief Scott McNealy took a few
stabs at Dell, saying that Dell uses a non-integrated "systems" approach. This
is, of course, not the path of Sun, which vows an integrated research and
development and engineering between its N1 on-demand platform and the Oracle
10g Grid-enabled database.
McNealy claimed that Sun's N1 and Oracle's 10g would achieve "tight
integration" within the next year to year-and-a-half. He also slammed Dell
again by stating that Sun's Project Orion software would add value to Dell's
hardware. He described Dell as a "nice, low-cost distribution channel."
Michael Dell, Dell's CEO, also spoke at OracleWorld, and had a different
view
of his company's strategy. By using Windows, Intel and Linux, Dell's research
and development costs remain low, and the company can take advantage of the
research already put into these products.
Integration with Oracle is a big issue right now, as the company is
focusing
its strategy on Grid computing. The Grid computing front is also a part of
Oracle's competition with IBM and Microsoft in the database industry. In fact,
HP also took the stage to discuss its support of the Oracle database.
Oracle has already outlined grid capabilities for the Oracle 10i database
and
the 9i Application Server, the latter enabling Java applications to run across
high performance distributed networks. The company will rename the software
Oracle Application Server 10 Grid.
Oracle said its grid strategy rests on technologies it has been developing
for
years, and points to its Application Clusters, Oracle Streams and
Transportable Tableplaces as the big three.
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