I’m going to throw my 2c in here- I also hope for the return of Oracle and
I agree, the list that Jared started, although short, is very, very
promising. What caused this was not the vision from the top, but losses
that created a panic to push for changes that many refused to consider
before, even though they had been proposed.
Oracle is fantastic technology, but to really succeed takes vision. When I
went to Microsoft, that was the by far the biggest selling point- the
vision of Satya Nadella that seemed to permeate every part of the company.
Larry once had this vision and especially with the recent losses, it is a
crucial time for, (IMHO) for Larry to step aside for someone with a new
vision to step in. I see the recent changes as promising and I’m looking
forward to what will come. I have to stress though, to consistently look
to Larry to bring the future of Oracle is asking for the slow death of the
company. From my view of recent years, his time and vision is over, let
the man go enjoy his island.
Kellyn
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 5:30 AM Mark W. Farnham <mwf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
So… before Larry bailed out Scott buying Sun, Oracle’s strength was that
they ran better (and arguably more cost effectively) than everyone else on
everything.
After acquiring Sun, of course a bias ensued that Oracle would at least
try to run better on Sun than they ran elsewhere. And when time sharing
relabeled as “Cloud” was resurrected (the flight from which to open systems
fueled Oracle’s original 7 year doubling growth), Oracle tried to run
better (and more favorable license terms) than everywhere else.
Now I hope (and Jared listed a few reasons for my hope) that Oracle will
return to the formula that wins for both Oracle AND customers:
“We will run better than everyone else on everything.”
If Larry wants help he knows where to find me.
mwf
*From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jared Still
*Sent:* Friday, October 18, 2019 10:35 AM
*To:* tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Cc:* Noveljic Nenad; Oracle-L Freelists
*Subject:* Re: Linux
lots of concessions coming from Oracle as of late
- vmware
- azure / microsoft (never expected that)
- oracle will never "own" the cloud
and now this: hard partitioning with kvm!
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:44 Tim Hall <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One more point about KVM, that a friend just posted on Twitter.
Oracle have now updated their hard-partitioning rules to include KVM.
https://www.oracle.com/assets/partitioning-070609.pdf
Cheers
Tim...
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:39 AM Noveljic Nenad <
nenad.noveljic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First of all, thank you very much for your invaluable inputs. They have
definitely helped us to define our stack – we’ll start with OL7 and KVM.
I consolidated the received feedbacks below – this summary could, perhaps,
be helpful to someone else standing at the same junction.
OS: OL7 seems to be a general consensus.
Virtualization:
What came up is that almost any virtualization software would work and
it’s, therefore, best to choose the product with the best in-house support.
Find below the pros and cons for different products:
- VMWare:
+ positive experience
+ good support
– license costs
- OVM:
+ free of charge
+ some financial benefits when moving to Oracle Cloud
- unpredictable behavior
- lack of general knowledge
- bad support
- not strategic by Oracle, as it was replaced by KVM in the latest Exadata.
- KVM:
+ free of charge
+ recommended by Oracle
- Hyper-V
- it doesn’t seem to be widely used with Oracle databases.
ACFS: There weren’t many feedbacks about ACFS, which might indicate that
this product isn’t widely used. It would be awesome, if more people could
share their experiences.
Best regards,
Nenad
https://nenadnoveljic.com/blog/
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