Comments on: Oracle's hardware gambit: Not so crazy

Larry Ellison has a lot riding on Oracle's burgeoning alliance with HP and its new data warehouse appliance. And unlike his failed network computer project a decade ago, this time around, he just might do hardware right.

[brill256]

I just wonder why anyone on earth would spend the money on Oracle when you could use MySQL, save like a squillion dollars, and get better performance. On RHEL 5, MySQL absolutely spanks Oracle on nearly every benchmark I've run.

[ferricoxide]

Scalability and support.

[ferricoxide]

Now, the question is, will the consultants they send out to deploy these things be any more clueful than the current lot of bozos they send out on RAC deployments?

[Penguinisto]

He's a bit late to the party (See also Citrix, LTSP, etc... ) :)

To be honest, I love MySQL, and in most simple DB aspects, it is the best option - but until you can (as only one of many examples) do two-way full replication without having to jigger around in Federated Tables (and even then it's still an experimental thing, as late as MySQL 5.1), Oracle on RAC is basically going to be top dog in distributed DB's for awhile.

*sigh* If only Postgres got wider exposure and wasn't such a screaming b!tch for most DBAs to work in...

@ferricoxide: The consultants will still likely preach the old-time religion (let me sum it up: $$$$!), and you;re still going to have to hold their hand vis-a-vis hardware, networking, etc etc...

/P

[idfubar]

Is it possible that bloggers (and the "Fourth Estate", which did such a good job in the run-up to the Iraq War) really only know what companies want them to know? At any rate good job on the article and kudos for remembering the Network Computer!

[kevinclosson]

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