RE: Oracle 11gR2 is GA today

  • From: "Johnson, George" <George.Johnson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <kerry.osborne@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:28:22 +0100

Looking at the new installer graphics, looks like the art department have been 
playing too much Gears of War on their consoles too!

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Kerry Osborne
Sent: 01 September 2009 22:40
To: greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx L
Subject: Re: Oracle 11gR2 is GA today


Wow - I think somebody let the marketing guys get a hold of that one!  

Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle
Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully 
deliver more
information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their 
budgets, and
reduce the risk of change in data centers. By deploying Oracle Database 11g 
Release 2
as their data management foundation, organizations can utilize the full power 
of the
worldʼs leading database to:
* reduce server costs by a factor of 5,
* reduce storage requirements by a factor of 12,
* improve mission critical system performance by a factor of 10,
* increase DBA and Developer productivity by a factor of 2,
* eliminate idle redundancy in the data center

To quote Ned Pepper in True Grit (it's a really old John Wayne movie for those 
of you too young to have heard of it): 

   "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

I mean, I can't wait to try out some of the new features, and no doubt there 
are some very interesting enhancements, but seriously, how did they calculate 
all those numbers? Marketing guys crack me up.
  
Kerry Osborne
Enkitec
blog: kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com






On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Greg Rahn wrote:


        I would give this a read as well:
        
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/pdf/oracle-database-11g-release2-overview.pdf
        linked from
        http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g
        
        -- 
        Regards,
        Greg Rahn
        http://structureddata.org
        --
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