FreeLists / oracle-l / Re: ZERO Database Downtime???

[John D Parker <orclwzrd@xxxxxxxxx>]

that would be Digital OpenVMS, not Tru64. Leslie Lamport of Lamport SCN
fame is the same Leslie Lamport from the VMS Cluster Team also the guy
that built TeX for technical publishing. Oracle picked up almost the
entire VMS Cluster dev team when Digital came apart.

john

--- LiShan Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Considering Oracle bought part of the "RAC Technology" from
> Compaq/Digital
> (Tru64)....
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/3/06, oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > >>>In fact, the reason for my original post was that I had seen
> > >>>the marketing presentation, and we had an Oracle customer
> > >>>engineer coming in to do an additional presentation to
> > >>>management.  I sprung some of the stuff we've been
> > >>>discussing here, and got him to back off and say:
> > >>>
> > >>>In 99.5% of all cases, you can upgrade without downtime.
> >
> > 99.5% of all Critical Patch Updates are total planned outages is
> more
> > like it.
> >
> > Oracle field tried to use the fictional "rooling upgrade" as a
> > smoking gun for not using a shared Oracle Home...this in spite
> > of the fact that Tru64 and Sequent customers had been doing it
> > for eons...
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> 


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