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Ellison launches Oracle enterprise grid computing
Grid computing is the end of the
40-year old "one big computer"
OracleWorld,
September 9, 2003
- Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry
Ellison announced Oracle Database 10g
and
Oracle Application Server 10g.
- Oracle Enterprise Grid computing
runs all applications with capacity on demand, at a lower
cost and higher level of fault tolerance and reliability.
- Ellison portrayed IBM's on demand
as financial engineering in contrast to Oracle on demand
which is software engineering with a price/performance
benefit of 30 to one.
San Francisco – In a keynote before a
standing-room-only crowd, Oracle's CEO launched the era of enterprise
computing with Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g.
After a futuristic laser show, Ellison went back
to 1964--the era of the Beach Boys, Mickey Mantle, and big iron. "Forty
years ago, IBM invented the 360 mainframe. What's happened in enterprise
systems since then? A quest to build bigger and bigger computers," said
Ellison
"Last year, Microsoft got into the race--40 years
late," said Ellison, referring to a recent 64-processor SQL Server Windows
mainframe benchmark. "I think the team Bill sent to IBM to figure out what's
next held their map upside down; instead of turning left into IBM research,
they turned right into the IBM museum."
Ellison announced the Oracle Enterprise Grid, a
smarter alternative to the 40-year-old "one big server." The Oracle grid,
according to Ellison, is without the one big server problems--limited
capacity, high cost, and a single point of failure. Next he outlined four
Oracle Enterprise Grid components--the storage grid, database grid,
application server grid, and grid control. "The beauty of the enterprise
grid is that our software creates the illusion that it's just one great big
computer," said Ellison.
Oracle's grid can tap low-cost Intel blades
running Linux, while avoiding the single point of failure of one big server.
In a comparison slide, before concluding with a brief Q&A, Ellison
highlighted several Oracle grid customers including Electronic Arts, CERN,
Oracle University, and Oracle Outsourcing. #
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