> >Just another consideration: am I the only one who believes we >will see a sort of oracle-os-kernel "in order to minimize the >overhead of having an operating system installed on the machine"? Of course they will. Everytime one of us deploys an oracle database on a stripped-down, barebones cluster of Linux servers from Dell, we are getting one step closer to that "utopia". Well, I better get back to figuring out how I can use RMAN to back up 15,000 enterprise desksides and ASM or Oracle Internet Filesystem to virtualize my 13TB of unstructured oil and gas data. I'll use tools like SQL*Calc in the process and I'll send an update from my Oracle*Mail account. > >Fabrizio >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l