most of the things already exist in one way or another - flashback, recover, incremental backups are sotrage capabilities (you can have it with netapp) - security, you can do almost any thing with linux - Resource managment, i dont know how you can do this in linux, but there are OS's that you can do it (likeWLM and PRM at HPUX)
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