Pretty close to true. Virtualization is a small administrative benefit to the buyer, and a huge marketing and debugging benefit to the vendor. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Optimising Oracle Seminar - schedule updated Sept 19th ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson, George" <GJohnson@xxxxxxx> To: <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Oracle-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:45 AM Subject: RE: Storage array advice anyone? : : So would you say that "storage virtualisation" is this another : gimmick from the marketing dept of the storage manufacturers, being used to : pull the wool over our eyes, to shift units? : -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l