Re: vmware (again)

Actually... VMWare can run it's own OS (ESX is the name if I'm recalling 
correctly), so I'd say that Oracle's statement is not all that misleading. Of 
course, Oracle has it's own VM so there is no rush to support VMWare on 
Oracle's part I'd say... :-)

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----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Armstrong-Champ <joseph.armstrong-champ@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, October 9, 2009 2:23:35 PM
Subject: vmware (again)

I read an interesting article about Oracle's certification of the database on 
vmware:

http://oraclestorageguy.typepad.com/oraclestorageguy/2009/04/what-the-oracle-vmware-support-statement-really-meansand-why.html

The gist is that while Oracle says (for non-RAC) that

'Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized 
environments.'

this statement is misleading because Oracle only certifies the database for 
operating systems. Vmware is not an os so they are stating the obvious in an 
effort to confuse and scare people.

Just like to get people's reaction to this. I know that this has been discussed 
on this list before but I never looked at it in these terms before.

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