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Top Seven Thoughts on Exadata X3
1. When you only include minimal support, maintenance, and licensing for your own system and include extraneous hardware and software in your competitor’s system, your pricing sure better look better. 2. When you use your own internal testing rather than industry standard benchmarks, you sure better look better. 3. When you compare X3 to X2 [...]
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Lackluster Larry
As we await that big wave called OpenWorld to reach our shores, let’s take a look at what we have actually seen from Oracle in the last few days. Questions on Oracle’s latest earnings and disappointing performance in hardware A new ad on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that attempts to make [...]
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Exadata, You Bully !
Yesterday I was reviewing a presentation and had an “aha” moment. In one case, results were being compared between technologies that were at about the same currency. In another case comparisons were being done between brand new spanking technology — and systems that were many years old. This morning I again came face to face [...]
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Notes from Oracle, Chapter 3 in the Series
Once again, I received a marketing email from Oracle this morning. And once again, hoping that it contained exciting new data on the T5, I was sadly disappointed. I can not fathom why they continue to address the email to a bizarre truncation of my first name. I continue to question my confidence in a [...]
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Oracle’s Historical Fiction
I love reading historical fiction. It’s somewhat like the real thing, but not quite. And definitely more exciting. This morning I received another email from Oracle that reminded me of just that. The note was once again addressed to “Elis”. I can not fathom why they continue to truncate my first name to only four [...]
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Posted in Netezza, Oracle, SPARC, SPARC T4
Tagged 11g, benchmark, benchmarking, communication, hardware, IBM, Netezza, oracle, ORC, performance, software, SPARC, Sun, Supercluster, systems, T4
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You’ve Got Mail, Weird Mail from Oracle
This morning I received an email from Oracle. Not surprising since I signed up to get some of their communications a few years ago. What surprised me is what the email contained. First of all, the email was addressed to “Elis”. Now I have gone by many nicknames in my past, but never “Elis”. I [...]
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Posted in announcement, Netezza, Oracle, SPARC T4
Tagged 11g, benchmark, benchmarking, communication, hardware, IBM, Larry, Netezza, oracle, performance, software, SPARC, Sun, Supercluster, systems, T4
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Oracle, The Dates They are A-Changin´
One of the great things about using industry standard benchmarks for performance evaluation is that you can trust the data. It is run according to benchmark kits developed by a committee. It is audited. It produces data and the results don’t change. Except when they do. One of the very useful pieces of data that [...]
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Posted in availability, Netezza, Oracle, TPC-C
Tagged 11g, availability, benchmark, benchmarking, DATE;, IBM, linux, M2, Netezza, oracle, performance, Sun, systems, TPC, TPC-C, X4800
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What’s Really Behind an Oracle “World Record” ?
It’s so sweet. Oracle is really trying. They realize how important it is to have industry standard benchmark proof points. They realize that these proof points should use important workloads. Like SAP. But that’s where it ends. In Oracle’s latest press release, they claim a “world record” on the SAP for Utilities Standard Application Benchmark. [...]
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Is Oracle Fleecing You?
A couple of days ago, I bought a new fleece hiking jacket. In small, in black, on sale. With a hood. Made by a high end manufacturer whose name evokes a part of a mountain. The plush is luxuriously thick, the zipper hardware is incredible, and the tailoring just feels so right. I had tried [...]
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A Better Future — and Much Faster with IBM
Is the future always better? Sometimes it’s not so clear. Take reading. Now that everyone is reading on electronic devices, we complain about getting distracted by email and tweets. No wonder we’re not finishing Anna Karenina. Take brushing teeth. I read this morning that kids these days are requiring oral surgery to fill numerous cavities [...]
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