RE: Oracle ventures into the O/S market.....?

Good thread, Matthew, but as a guy that worked inside an Oracle port (Sequent) for 10 years, I still see the same old OS interfaces (OSDS).... Oracle still does shared memory, shared libraries, IPC (on and off host (skgxp)), and I/O...unless Oracle gets some code (a lot actually) into the kernel, those VERY important runtime facilities are still going to be in the domain of the OS.

Also, since Oracle never truly implemented a multithreaded server (ala Sybase or Informix DSA, Ingres) there is quite a reliance upon process infrastructure as well.

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Matthew Zito [mailto:mzito_at_gridapp.com]
>>>Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 1:20 PM
>>>To: kevinc_at_polyserve.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>>>Subject: RE: Oracle ventures into the O/S market.....?
>>>
>>>
>>>My point was just that the days when Oracle cheerfully sat
>>>on top of an OS, completely relying on the OS for every
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