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

They've talked for a while about a transactional filesystem replacement for NTFS, this keeps going back. Prior to that of course there was the object oriented filesystem they threw a hell of a lot of R&D at in the late nineties, that didn't see the light of day either. Oh and exchange server was going to get a sqlserver engine at one point as well. I don't believe any of these have seen the light of day.

cheers

On 4/17/06, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> wrote:
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> Now I'll admit that it is a touch off the Oracle topic, but didn't good
> old Microsoft say something about integrating Sql*Server & Windows into what
> we now call Windows 2003 Server? Guess that died on the vine as well.
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> This list does not make Oracle an OS. Try implementing any of that
> stuff without an OS underneath and the point will be crystal clear..
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> I have a talk I give at OUGs around the country about database automation
> that makes a few general points on this subject:
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> - Oracle's database is getting closer to an OS all the time. We can look
> at some of the features that Oracle has internally like:
> --- Cluster framework (CRS)
> --- IP and network management (VIPs - yes, part of the CRS, I know)
> --- Built-in memory management (automatic SGA, etc. tuning)
> --- Built-in storage/volume management (ASM)
> --- Filesystem structures (tablespaces, OCFS, etc.)
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